Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Washington State. He attended Oxford University and Stanford University, where he now teaches English and creative writing. He has received the Story Prize, both the Rea Award and PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Contents:Napoleon Hill. Think and Grow Rich (The text is reproduced from the original publications of 1937)George Samuel Clason. The Richest Man In Babylon (The text is reproduced from the original publications of 1920-1924)James Allen. As A Man ThinkethJames Allen. Out from the HeartKahlil Gibran. The ProphetSun Tzu. The Art of WarLao Tzu. The Tao Te ChingConfucius. AnalectsBenjamin Franklin. The Way to WealthBenjamin Franklin. The AutobiographyMarcus Aurelius Antoninus. The Meditations Of The EmperorRussell H. Conwell. Every Man His Own UniversityRalph Waldo Emerson. Self-relianceFlorence Scovel Shinn. The Game of Life and How To Play ItCharles F. Haanel. The Master Key SystemW. D. Wattles. The Science Of Getting RichWallace D. Wattles. How To Get What You WantWallace D. Wattles. The Science Of Being WellWallace D. Wattles. The Science of Being GreatOrison Swett Marden. An Iron WillOrison Swett Marden. He Can Who Thinks He CanRussell H. Conwell. Acres of DiamondsWilliam Walker Atkinson. Thought Vibration: or the Law of Attraction in the Thought WorldP. T. Barnum. Art of Money Getting Or, Golden Rules for Making MoneyG.K. Chesterton. OrthodoxyLeo Tolstoy. A Confession

The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed.