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The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future

The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
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5.0 out of 5 starsA wise guide through the human experience
ByGeoffrey Hennyon August 10, 2016
Format: Paperback|Verified 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
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5.0 out of 5 starsRequired reading
ByVirditason 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.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDistilled wisdom. Pure joy.
ByMr. R. Watsonon 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.
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2.0 out of 5 starsCommenting & high lighting the common pleasures of life which ...
ByMAHMOUD AMIRIon August 20, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified 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.
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