Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life
Titel

Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life

Forfatter
William Ian Miller
Beskrivelse

In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, indeed often the opposite of intended effects, of so-called "good things".

Noted for his remarkable erudition, wit, and playful pessimism, Miller here ranges over topics from personal disasters to literary and national ones. Drawing on a truly immense store of knowledge encompassing literature, philosophy, theology, and history, he excavates the evidence of human anxieties around scarcity in all its forms (from scarcity of food to luck to where we stand in the eyes of others caught in a game of musical chairs we often do not even know we are playing).

With wit and sensitivity, along with a large measure of fearless self-scrutiny, he points to and invites us to recognize the gloomy, neurotic, despondent tendencies of reasonably sentient human life. The book is a careful examination of negative beliefs, inviting an experience of bleak fellow-feeling among the author, the listener, and many a hapless soul across the centuries. Just what makes you more nervous, he asks, a run of good luck, or a run of bad?

Lyt gratis
via Mofibo (45 dage Gratis)
Ingen binding på abonnement, 60 dages gratis prøveperiode, kompatibel med Sonos – Danmarks største udvalg af lyd og e-bøger.
Her kan du streame og lytte til bogen
Lydbogstjenester:
Mofibo
Gratis prøveperiode
45 dage
Abonnement:
129 kr./mdr.
Lydbogsbibliotek:
+ 300.0000
★★★★★
★★★★★
(4/5 baseret på 306 anmeldelser)
45 dage gratis prøveperiode for nye brugere
Lignende bøger:
Henry V
Af William Shakespeare
Argo Classics
Af William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Af William Shakespeare
Christmas with Cart
Af William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Victor Herbert, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, James Barrie, Louisa May Alcott
Argo Classics
Af William Shakespeare
Argo Classics
Af William Shakespeare
Argo Classics
Af William Shakespeare
Lydbogstjenester
Information
Social