Since its original publication in 1951, light from Many Lamps has established itself as a classic work of inspiration. Now available for the first time in paperback, Lillan Eichler Watson’s treasury can be shared with new generations.

Here are not only the best of the best of the world’s most inspiring thoughts and ideas, but the stories behind them: how they came to be written and what their impact has been on others. Light from Many Lamps is not only a storehouse of inspired and inspiring reading; it is a collection of brief, stimulating biographies as well. There are selections from John Burroughs, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Cullen Bryant, Mary Pickford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Hippocrates, Saint Paul, Confucius, Henry David Thoreau, plus many others.