George Myerson

A Private History of Happiness: Ninety-Nine Moments of Joy from Around the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Instead of advocating the latest guide or formula to achieve happiness, A Private History of Happiness offers a fresh look at everyday moments of joy as they were experienced by real peopleacross many centuries and from around the worldand invites us to discover the happiness in our own lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BlueBridge
• New
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 144mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781933346519
• ISBN-10: 1933346515
• Artikelnr.: 34681167

Autorenporträt

George Myerson has published a number of books on ancient and contemporary culture, and modern thought. He holds a PhD in English from Cambridge University, and was a reader in English at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1) Morning
2) Friendship
3) Garden
4) Family
5) Leisure
6) Nature
7) Food and Drink
8) Wellbeing
9) Creativity
10) Love
11) Evening
End Notes
Index
The ninety-nine happiness moments featured in the book come from both
famous and little-known individuals, and a number of them are Americans.
Here is a partial list of the famous people whose happiness moments are
featured:
James Audubon
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Marcus Aurelius
Robert Burns
Murusaki Shikibu
Michel de Montaigne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Horace
Ouyang Xiu
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
Robert Schumann
Matsuo Basho
Gilbert White
Ibn Battuta
Hermippus
Benjamin of Tudela
Walter Scott
George Eliot
Ptah Hotep
Niccolo Machiavelli
Sappho
Bhaskara
Fanny Burney
Ptolemy
Franceso Petrarca
Benjamin Franklin
Louisa May Alcott
Elizabeth Barrett
Honoré de Balzac
Leo Tolstoy
Mary Wollstonecraft
Sulpicia
Wang Wei
Washington Irving
Hans Christian Andersen
Walt Whitman
Dorothy Wordsworth