HAPPINESS: AS FOUND IN FORETHOUGHT MINUS FEARTHOUGHT

Beschreibung

Reprint (Eleventh Thousand.) Hardback. 8vo.pp.261. Wellbeing & Positive Thinking. One of the original 'self-help' books: "How to be happy is the one desire common to all humanity." Chapter headings include: 'Theory,' 'Baleful Effects of Fear,' 'Unhappy Unless Miserable,' 'Don't Be A Sewer,' & 'Love Cannot Be Qualified.' Original publisher's cloth binding in pale blue with slightly faded black lettering o front cover and spine. Interesting library stamp of Mrs. Horace Fletcher on the free endpaper, giving the address as 'Palazzo Saibante, Traghetto Madonetta, Venezia.' Horace Fletcher (1849Ð1919) Self-taught nutritionist, lecturer, author, world traveller is best known as an early American food enthusiast or 'faddist,' who earned the nickname "The Great Masticator," for his theory that food should be chewed thoroughly until liquefied before swallowing. Henry James and Mark Twain were visitors to his home in the Palazzo Saibante, Venice. His wife, Grace Fletcher, was an amateur artist, having studied in Paris in the 1870s and been greaty influenced by the Impressionist Movement. Very good-minus. Slightly used, frayed, and faded covers, with remnants of a letter seal (red wax.).

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

HAPPINESS: AS FOUND IN FORETHOUGHT MINUS FEARTHOUGHT

Verlag

Frederick A. Stokes, New York,

Erscheinungsjahr

1898

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

Good

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• Psychology
• Health / Medecine
• Wellbeing