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Travels with Epicurus a journey to a Greek island in search of a fulfilled life

Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.

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Main Author: Klein, Daniel M.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
Epicurus.
Life.
Hydra (Greece) > Description and travel.
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Summary:Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.
Physical Description:x, 164 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:9780143121930 (hbk.)
0143121936 (hbk.)
Author Notes:Daniel Klein is the coauthor (with Thomas Cathcart) of the international bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates . The author or coauthor of thirty other books, including The Half-Jewish Book , the Elvis Presley mystery series ( Kill Me Tender , Blue Suede Clues ), and the award-winning novel The History of Now , Klein holds a degree in philosophy from Harvard University and lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, Freke Vuijst.

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