Finding Happiness

Zachary Seager

ISBN 10: 1035045710 / ISBN 13: 9781035045716

Verlag: Pan Macmillan Apr 2025, 2025

Beschreibung

Neuware - The search for happiness is without a doubt one of our greatest preoccupations. In this fascinating volume of essays and anecdotes, influential writers from classical times to the early 20th century explore what it means to be happy.Whilst Epicurus sets out some principles for happiness, Jerome K. Jerome suggests with characteristic wit that we eat, drink and be merry and Ralph Waldo Emerson explains how friendship contributes to a happy state.Writer Zachary Seager has selected and introduced an inspiring array of insightful writing which combines self help, erudition and dazzling wisdom to create a book to treasure and to guide you through life.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781035045716

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Finding Happiness
• Verlag: Pan Macmillan Apr 2025
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1035045710
• ISBN-13: 9781035045716
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

The search for happiness is without a doubt one of our greatest preoccupations. In this volume of inspiring essays, letters and anecdotes, classic writers and philosophers from ancient times to the early twentieth century ask what it means to be happy.

Whilst Epicurus sets out his principles for happiness, Ralph Waldo Emerson explains how friendship contributes to a happy state, and Jerome K. Jerome suggests with characteristic wit that we eat, drink and be merry. Rose Macaulay praises the joys of quiet hours reading in bed, and George Eliot suggests that with age and experience comes true happiness. More relevant than ever are Bertrand Russell’s exploration of technology interfering with emotion and Henry Van Dyke’s ode to finding our spiritual wealth.

Combining self-help, erudition, and healing wisdom, this is a book to treasure and to guide you through life. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Zachary Seager is a Paris-based writer. He edited the anthologies The Art of Solitude, Sleepily
Ever After, Our Place in Nature and Paris: A Literary Anthology, all published by Macmillan Collector's Library.