The conquest of happiness

An examination of the multiple causes of unhappiness, and of the attitudes and behaviors linked to happiness. "I venture to hope that some of the many men and women who are unhappy without wanting to be, will find their situation diagnosed and the method of escape suggested. I have written this book in the belief that many unhappy people can be happy through skillfully directed effort." Thus Bertrand Russell tells us in the prologue that this book addresses, from "common sense," the causes of unhappiness and the keys to happiness in modern life. Its author, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and Nobel Prize winner in 1950, examines, with extraordinary insight, the most subtle problems of intimate life and offers us a true treatise on the art of being happy.