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A private history of happiness: ninety-nine moments of joy from around the world

By George , Myerson

Book information

Publisher
Head of Zeus
Year
2013
ISBN
9781781854822, 9781781854815, 1781854823
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1551073 bytes)
Pages
xiii, 238 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Happiness;Joy

Description

From the bliss of lingering in a warm bed on a winter morning, to a bracing springtime walk by the seaside, A PRIVATE HISTORY OF HAPPINESS offers the reader a wealth of delightfully fresh perceptions of where and how happiness may be found.These 99 moments of happiness are arranged by theme - Morning, Friendship, Garden, Family, Leisure, Nature, Food and Drink, Well-being, Creativity, Love and Evening - and each is followed by a brief description and commentary that sets the extract in context and encourages further reflection.Drawing on a wide and international range of literary sources - from Ptolemy to Tolstoy - George Myerson reveals that small, unpretentious joys have been shared by human beings across cultures and over thousands of years. He invites us to discover the happiness in our own lives that can be found here and now.

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