The Art of Money Getting

A modern-English edition of P. T. Barnum’s 1880 guide to work, opportunity, thrift, judgment, and making money. Barnum wrote in brisk, practical prose, but even short nineteenth-century advice books can feel dated on the page. This edition keeps the drive and directness of the original while making it cleaner and easier to use.

The Art of Money Getting sits at the intersection of Victorian self-help and American hustle literature. It is full of blunt advice about prudence, reputation, energy, and common sense in economic life.

For readers interested in early success literature, business history, or the moral language of money in the nineteenth century, it remains surprisingly readable and revealing.