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Happiness

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• Emotions

• Well-being
• Cheerfulness
• Contentment
• Pleasure

• Happiness -- Early works to 1800
• Happiness -- Economic aspects
• Happiness -- Fiction
• Happiness -- Juvenile drama
• Happiness -- Religious aspects
• Happiness in literature
• Joy

• Gladness

• The Rossi Formula for Maximum Happiness: A Philosophy of Life (New York: Exposition Press, c1972), by Emidio J. Rossi (HTML with commentary at Verizon)
• The Anatomy of Happiness (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Martin Gumpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• How You Can Keep Happy (Chicago: American Health Book Concern, 1926), by William S. Sadler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Happiness, As Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought (New York: F. A. Stokes co., c1898), by Horace Fletcher, contrib. by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg text)
• Happiness That Lasts, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Just Be Glad (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Laugh and Live (with a "close-up" of the author; New York: Britton Pub. Co., 1917), by Douglas Fairbanks, contrib. by George Creel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Help Yourself to Happiness (New York and London: Whittlesey House, 1937), by David Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way to Happiness (main text of Scientology-promoted ethical guide; electronic edition), by L. Ron Hubbard (illustrated HTML with commentary at thewaytohappiness.org)

• An Enquiry After Happiness in Three Parts (set made from 6th edition of parts 1 and 2, and 5th edition of part 3; 1734-1735), by Richard Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolation Philosophiae" (EETS extra series #5; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1868, reprinted 1969), by Boethius, ed. by Richard Morris, trans. by Geoffrey Chaucer (Gutenberg text)
• The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius, trans. by W. V. Cooper (HTML at ex-classics.com)
• The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, Translated into English Prose and Verse (London: E. Stock, 1897), by Boethius, trans. by H. R. James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Theological Tractates (English versions of the Tractates only), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (page images and partial HTML at CCEL)
• The Theological Tractates; The Consolation of Philosophy (in English and Latin; 1918), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (Gutenberg text)

• Happiness, Economics and Public Policy (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007), by Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod, contrib. by Samuel Brittan and Melanie Powell (PDF with commentary at IEA)

• My Mortal Enemy (1926), by Willa Cather
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Five Acts, by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
  • PDF at astorialand.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Blue Bird; A Fairy Play in Six Acts (Act IV added in 1910; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Oiseau Bleu: Féerie en Six Actes et Douze Tableaux (in French; Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1911), by Maurice Maeterlinck (Gutenberg text)

• Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, of the Holy Father Francis, to the Bishops, Clergy, Consecrated Persons and the Lay Faithful on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today's World (also known as "The Joy of the Gospel"; in multiple languages; 2013), by Pope Francis (HTML and PDF at the Vatican)

• Desiring God: Meditations of A Christian Hedonist (1996 edition), by John Piper (frame-dependent HTML at desiringgod.org)
• When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, by John Piper (PDF with commentary at desiringgod.org)

• The God Who Smiles (2001), by Sherwood Eliot Wirt (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Jesus, Man of Joy, by Sherwood Eliot Wirt (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Influence of Joy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1916), by George Van Ness Dearborn (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2017), by Ingrid Robeyns (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Dark Deleuze (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), by Andrew Culp (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (2004), ed. by Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler (PDF files at Wisconsin)

• Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing: How Important is Economic Growth? (c2014), ed. by A. S. Podger and Dennis Trewin (multiple formats at ANU E Press)

• Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Pollyanna (Boston: The Page Co., 1920), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Stockton Mulford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pollyanna Grows Up (Boston: The Page Co., 1915), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Henry Weston Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pollyanna Grows Up, by Eleanor H. Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Peeps, the Really Truly Sunshine Fairy (Chicago et al.: P.F. Volland, c1918), by Nancy Cox-McCormack, illust. by Katharine Sturges (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Blissylvania Post-Office (New York et al.: Benziger Bros., c1897), by Marion Ames Taggart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Poems of Cheer, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Violet: A Fairy Story (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1856), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)

• Darby and Joan: or, The Reward of Contentment (Baltimore, ca. 1829) (page images at uncg.edu)

• 'Tis All for the Best (London: Howard and Evans, ca. 1810), by Hannah More
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art of Divine Contentment, by Thomas Watson (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Philebus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle (translated from the 2nd German edition; London and Vienna: The International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by C. J. M. Hubback
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Der Genussmensch: Ein Cicerone im Rücksichtlosen Lebensgenuss (in German; Munich: Hyperion, 1920), by Willem van Wulfen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jenseits des Lustprinzips (in German; 1921), by Sigmund Freud (Gutenberg text)
• The Pleasures of Life (longer edition, from 1890 or later), by John Lubbock (Gutenberg text)
• The Pleasures of Life (shorter version than later editions; New York: John Alden, 1887), by John Lubbock (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Pain: Its Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1921), by Richard J. Behan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sexual Ecstasy From Ancient Wisdom, by Summum Bonum Amen Ra (zipped HTML at sexualecstasy.org)

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