THE OPTIMIST’S/PESSIMIST’S HANDBOOK: A COMPANION TO HOPE AND DESPAIR

Book ID/图书代码： 13160008B25541

English Summary/英文概要： ’We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’ (Oscar Wilde)

’I tell you, we’re in a blessed drain-pipe, and we’ve got to crawl along it till we die.’ (H.G. Wells)

Are optimists just reckless dreamers? Are pessimists miserable doom-mongers or just erring on the side of caution? Is the glass half empty or half full?

Brilliantly compiled and beautifully written, this is a rich anthology of evidence from both sides of any argument. Covering everything from Africa to Beauty, Happiness to Patriotism to

Walking, it is sop to any disposition; the perfect tool for squabbling families, a counterbalance for arguing couples and a mine of detail for the quarrelsome.

The Optimist on the Afterlife: My heaven will be filled with wonderful young men and dukes. (Dame Barbara Cartland )

And the Pessimist: ’That’s what Hell will be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. (Samuel Beckett)

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 不管你是天生的樂觀主義者還是天性悲觀的人，本書將提供重新定義你對兩者的不同觀點。作者收錄從古至今所有關於這兩方相關名人語錄、諺語、統計資料等，其切入點更是包羅萬象，從非洲議題到美的觀點，從何謂幸福到愛國意識等，每個不同的議題都有各自表述其正面（樂觀）或負面（悲觀）的觀感。(VL)

Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold: Bloomsbury Berlin (German); Globo (Portuguese / Brazil); Simon & Schuster (US)

About the Author/作者介绍： Niall Edworthy is the author of The Curious Gardener’s Almanac and eighteen previous books under a variety of guises and noms de plume, covering military history, biography, sport, general humour and gardening. He lives in West Sussex with his wife and two children. Petra Cramsie worked as an editor for puzzle magazines, then as a writer/researcher making documentaries for TV, and then as an editor at Allison and Busby. After leaving London, she studied for degrees in Human Ecology (which taught her to be pessimistic), and Philosophy (which taught her how to be, if not optimistic, then at least philosophical). She lives in Herefordshire with her family.

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