The Conquest of Happiness"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 |
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