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The Art of Solitude Zachary Seager

The Art of Solitude By Zachary Seager

The Art of Solitude by Zachary Seager


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A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about solitude from your favorite classic authors.

The Art of Solitude Summary

The Art of Solitude: Selected Writings by Zachary Seager

In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by writer and academic, Zachary Seager.

The Art of Solitude shows some of the myriad ways in which people throughout history have understood their experiences of solitary life, or have counselled others to benefit from solitude. It contains poetry, essays, autobiographical pieces and short stories from writers such as Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

These diverse works can teach us how to think in freedom, how to enjoy a profound inner life and how best to cope with the fact that, as the novelist Joseph Conrad put it, we live, as we dream - alone. Above all, they show how we might truly connect with ourselves and, in the process, how we can meaningfully connect with those around us, including the earth itself. Looked at in this way, solitude is always focused both outward and inward, towards the self and towards the world. The cure for loneliness is, in the end, the art of solitude.

About Zachary Seager

Zachary Seager is an author and academic and so spends a lot of time alone. He is based in Oxford.

Selected writings by: Kamo no Chomei, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descartes, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emily Dickinson, Alice Meynell and Virginia Woolf.

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NGR9781529032628
9781529032628
1529032628
The Art of Solitude: Selected Writings by Zachary Seager
New
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
20201029
224
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