Author: Sothern
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: tale, melancholy
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2009-10-23
List price: $39.75
ISBN-10: 1115325221
ISBN-13: 9781115325226

Author: Marc Fumaroli
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: melancholy, amp, montaigne
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-06-28
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0742508633
ISBN-13: 9780742508637

"Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced temperament, sanguine and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. When he started his Essays, Montaigne was upset by an attack of melancholy humor: He became temperamental and unbalanced. Writing about himself restored the balance but broke an age-old taboo happily so, for he discovered profound truths about himself and about our human condition. His charm and humor have made his writings widely enjoyed and admired."

Author: Lachlan Standfield
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: melancholy, finding
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2005-12-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1411651944
ISBN-13: 9781411651944

James Connor has a choice to make. Should he put his hand into the ancient box placed in front of him, or should he walk away? If he chooses to walk away he’ll go back to packing supermarket shelves for less than six bucks an hour. Answering to spotty teens less than half his age. Living in a dangerous slum on the edge of the city. The life of an ex-con. If Connor chooses the box he will enter the employ of Mr Valk, a purveyor of oddities and collectables. A man that conducts his business from behind screens and through intermediaries. A man desperately trying to retrieve his precious bo

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: stories, melancholy, medicine
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0380730863
ISBN-13: 9780380730865

Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes--for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family’s first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called Invasion. The most marvelous Christmas display a little boy ever saw. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade editio

Author: Robert Burto
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: volume, melancholy, anatomy
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $47.75
ISBN-10: 0559128142
ISBN-13: 9780559128141

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your un

Author: Eric G. Wilso
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: melancholy, praise, happiness
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-01-20
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0374531668
ISBN-13: 9780374531669

We are addicted to happiness. More than any other generation, Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking. But who says we’re supposed to be happy? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights. So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let’s embrace our depressive side as the wellspring of creativity. It’s time to throw off the shackles of positivity and relish the blues thatmake us h

Author: Eric G. Wilso
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: melancholy, praise, happiness
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0374240663
ISBN-13: 9780374240660

Americans are addicted to happiness. When we’re not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. The titles themselves draw a stark portrait of the war on melancholy. More than any other generation, Americans of today believ