A Little Book of Happiness

'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.

Auteur

'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.