| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9385755943 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-9385755941 |
| No of pages | 160 |
| Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Published Date | 12 May 2016 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9385755943 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-9385755941 |
| No of pages | 160 |
| Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Published Date | 12 May 2016 |
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist.
He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademie award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademie, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landor near Mussoorie.
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SUMMARY
‘To find happiness, look halfway between too little and too
much.’
—Ruskin Bond
• Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not.
• Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness even if it stands before you.
• How a bird can fill you with joy and how a stranger’s smile can soothe you.
• Why happiness may not even be the word for what we really need. India’s beloved sage and writer brings together his own pithy observations and those by artists and thinkers he admires in this beautiful little anthology. A Little Book of Happiness is a miscellany for all seasons, one to cherish and to share.
Review
‘He has wrapped a handful of his own pithy observations and those by great personalities he admires, in a pocket-sized anthology that is “a miscellany for all seasons, one to cherish and to share”.’—The Financial Express
Review
'He has wrapped a handful of his own pithy observations and those by great personalities he admires, in a pocket-sized anthology that is “a miscellany for all seasons, one to cherish and to share”.' - The Financial Express
‘A Little Book of Happiness stresses on the importance of choosing a career that you love’. - Mid-Day
‘A Little Book of Happiness is a miscellany for all seasons, one to cherish and to share’. - For Reading addicts
About the Author
Ruskin Bond is the author of numerous novellas, short-story collections and non-fiction books, many of them classics. Among them are The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli, Landour Days, Rain in the Mountains, A Book of Simple Living and Friends in Wild Places. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.