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Book Synopsisa constant companion' Bill Bailey
'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen.
Trade ReviewExtraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade -- Maggie Gee * Daily Telegraph *
The book that changed my life... a constant companion -- Bill Bailey * Prospect Magazine *
One of the year's most original and outstanding books...fascinating labyrinths of history and human experience, which he perceptively, intructively and absorbingly explores. This is a read to relish * Financial Times *
Theodore Zeldin's all-embracing history of our feelings throughout the ages [is] brilliantly original and unsettling... His scope is dazzling... A seductive and unusually thought provoking book * Sunday Telegraph *
Bubbling wit... Zeldin makes life exciting for the reader. It is like being on some careering fair-ground ride that whirls you from one limelit fragment of civilisation to the next at breakneck speed...gatecrashing all the cultures of the world * Spectator *
