Synopsis
This study examines the dilemmas of modern life, aiming to show how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people, alongside historical figures from all civilizations, reveal many untried options. Topics discussed include: loneliness; new forms of love; respect versus power; and travel.
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"Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade" (Maggie Gee Daily Telegraph)
"One of the year's most original and outstanding books...fascinating labyrinths of history and human experience, which he perceptively, intructively and absorbingly explores. This is a read to relish" (Financial Times)
"Theodore Zeldin's all-embracing history of our feelings throughout the ages [is] brilliantly original and unsettling... His scope is dazzling... A seductive and unusually thought provoking book" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Bubbling wit... Zeldin makes life exciting for the reader. It is like being on some careering fair-ground ride that whirls you from one limelit fragment of civilisation to the next at breakneck speed...gatecrashing all the cultures of the world" (Spectator)
"It's the sort of book that will go on being famous long after we're all dead... If ever a volume deserved that overused ecomium "this book will change your life", it is this one" (Oxford Today)
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‘Theodore Zeldin’s all-embracing history of our feelings through the ages [is] brilliantly original and unsettling... A seductive and unusually thought provoking book’ Sunday Telegraph
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