The Pessimist's / Optimist's Handbook: A Companion to Despair / Hope

The Pessimist’s / Optimist’s Handbook: A Companion to Despair / Hope

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• Pages are slightly yellow with age
• No missing or damaged pages
• No writing in the margins
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• Binding is minimally creased
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Are optimists just reckless dreamers? Are pessimists miserable doom-mongers or just erring on the side of caution? Is the glass half empty or half full? Brilliantly compiled and beautifully written, this is a rich anthology of evidence from both sides of any argument. Covering everything from Beauty to Happiness, Patriotism to Walking, it is the perfect tool for squabbling families, a counterbalance for arguing couples and a mine of detail for the quarrelsome. The Optimist on the Afterlife: My heaven will be filled with wonderful young men and dukes. (Dame Barbara Cartland)
And the Pessimist: 'That's what Hell will be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. (Samuel Beckett)

CONTRIBUTORS Authors: Niall Edworthy, Petra Cramsie

PUBLISHED BY Transworld Publishers Ltd

EAN 9780552776110

DATE PUBLISHED 01 January 2010

COUNTRY United Kingdom

CITY London

PAGES 336

GENRE Humour collections & anthologies

WEIGHT 230 g

WIDTH 128 mm HEIGHT 198 mm SPINE 19 mm