The Conquest of Happiness

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 191 pages
"My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, appears inescapable."
 

Contents

Preface
11
Byronic Unhappiness
24
Competition
39
Boredom and Excitement
48
Fatigue
57
Envy
67
The Sense of Sin
77
Persecution Mania
89
Is Happiness Still Possible?
113
Zest
124
Affection
137
The Family
145
Work
162
Impersonal Interests
170
Effort and Resignation
178
The Happy Man
186

Fear of Public Opinion
100

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About the author (1996)

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was born in England and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His long career established him as one of the most influential philosophers, mathematicians, and social reformers of the twentieth century.

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