Smile: A Reader's Guide To Happiness
There doesn't seem to a happy equivalent to the term 'miserylit'. Despite this sad deficiency in the language, we've made a selection of books that deal with happiness and the pursuit of it. We hope you enjoy looking through them.
£16.95
Laughter: Notes on a Passion
Anca Parvalescu’s theoretical examination of laughter draws on Beckett, Nietzsche, the Bible, Derrida and Bataille to argue that laughter is not a ... See details
£12.99
My Happy Days in Hell
Hungarian poet György Faludi became famous in his native country for his translations of François Villon, first published in Budapest in 1934. In 1... See details
£9.99
The Pursuit of Happiness: A History from the Greeks to the Present
Darrin McMahon’s history of happiness – ‘this “thing” that is not a thing, this hope, this yearning, this dream’ – draws not so much on neuroscienc... See details
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Candide, or Optimism
Voltaire’s caustic send-up of Leibniz’s theory of optimism – that if a better world than this one were possible, God would have created it – contai... See details
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Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s classic work of popular psychology proposes that true happiness – the exhilarating and transcendent euphoria that the aut... See details
£8.99
Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
Social commentator Barbara Ehrenreich lays into the positivity gurus, quacks, life-coaches and charlatan preachers who have tried to persuade us th... See details
£10.50
Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness
Willard Spiegelman’s essays on seven of the things that give him pleasure – dancing, reading, walking, looking, listening, swimming and writing – i... See details