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The Hidden Pleasures of Life
A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
By: Theodore Zeldin
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 21-05-2015
Language: English
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Non-member price: $29.96
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Publisher's Summary
Are you truly alive? Move from mindfulness to thoughtfulness as Theodore Zeldin opens up new perspectives on life in a series of intimate conversations with figures both famous and obscure, from civilisations throughout time. Each chapter reconsiders one of the big decisions that every person has to make.
What is the answer to the shortage of soul mates? How can one escape from work colleagues who are bores and organisations that thrive on stress? How could the unappreciated, rejected, or betrayed find less conventional ways of expressing their dismay? How could the quarrels within and between nations, religions, and temperaments open the way for a new attitude to disagreement? How can humour erode hypocrisy more effectively? How can the yearning for beauty help to make each life into a work of art?
This is not yet another book offering instant cures. Instead of asking you to change your ways, it takes you on a journey of exploration into ambitions, affections, memories and experiments that might lead today's increasingly demanding humans nearer to filling the voids in their existence and becoming truly alive.
©2015 Theodore Zeldin (P)2015 Quercus Publishing
Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars
MR J F COYLE
09-09-2016
Great life lessons.
Would you listen to The Hidden Pleasures of Life again? Why?
Zeldin really has profound and interesting views on life and makes these clear and thought provoking. This is a book for everyone, but not everyone will have the courage to read it.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
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August 10, 2016
Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
Loved this book and his other wonderful works. So many profound observations on every important area of the human experience. I find his writing a tremendous solace as I age. You feel in the company of a wise friend guiding you through the human experience - an everyman's Virgil. He uses such interesting sources and anecdotes. His observations on the challenges we all face have a deep authenticity I can vouch for having been around for awhile. I met Theodore several times at St. A nthony's college Oxford when I was a Trinity college graduate student in the early 1970s. He was and no doubt still is a witty, erudite and very humane person. My former wife Sue Kay Chapman Henny was a friend of his which is how I got to know him. I recommend his books to nearly everyone I meet.
Geoffrey Henny - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Geoffrey Henny - Ann Arbor, Michigan
it is performed in such a simple language that it feels like you just have a personal talk with Theodore Zeldin
December 9, 2017Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase
such an intellectual pleasure to read this book. At the same time, it is performed in such a simple language that it feels like you just have a personal talk with Theodore Zeldin.
February 14, 2019
Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
Excellent book! Highly recommend.
August 20, 2015
Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase
Commenting & high lighting the common pleasures of life which we don't appreciate & take for granted is most interesting. Advocating his philosophy rather repetitive & tiring.
November 14, 2016
Format: Paperback
This is a fantastic book. Zeldin is an engineer of optimism, change, and openness. If this book were required reading for everyone, we would live in a very different world. This is a human book about human scaled possibilities. Please read this.
June 26, 2015
Format: Hardcover
This is a truly wonderful book. Even the contents gave me shivers of excitement. If your wish is to be alive then read this book.
