ABOUT THE BOOK

First published in 1930, The Conquest of Happiness is a self-help classic written for an era when people were more practical and less self-obsessed than today. It addressed a fundamental question- how can we be happy? – not by asking readers to overthink the problem, make endless lists or dig deep into their subconscious, but by suggesting useful and manageable things that can be done to improve their daily lives, Russell’s ideas are given new life with twenty-first century examples.