Happiness
| Title | Happiness |
| Year for Search | 1988 |
| Authors | Zeldin, Theodore(b. 1933) |
| Date Published | 1988 |
| Publisher | Collins Harvill |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | A satirical tour of a modern Heaven by a young woman, her dog, and her pet cockroach, who immediately escapes. Heaven is overcrowded and full of people who had hoped for more from Heaven. The young woman, Sumdy (Somebody) interviews many of the occupants in search of her guardian angel. Includes extended satires of universities and other institutions and social practices. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1933), an historian of France, was born in what was then Palestine, but he was raised, educated, and lives in England where he is an Emeritus Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford. |
| Full Text | 1988 Zeldin, Theodore (b. 1933). Happiness. A satirical tour of a modern Heaven by a young woman, her dog, and her pet cockroach, who immediately escapes. Heaven is overcrowded and full of people who had hoped for more from Heaven. The young woman, Sumdy (Somebody) interviews many of the occupants in search of her guardian angel. Includes extended satires of universities and other institutions and social practices. The author, an historian of France, was born in what was then Palestine, but he was raised, educated, and lives in England where he is an Emeritus Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford. |
