Bibliograph

Letters To Lily, On How the World Works

Type

Label

Letters To Lily, On How the World Works

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Letters To Lily

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

727647170

Sub title

On How the World Works

Summary

In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works, how it got to be as it is, what it could be, and where she fits in. Lily's enquiries range from the intimate, personal and moral to the political, social and philosophical. What is the nature of good and evil? What is religion? How can I be truly me? Is right and wrong the same wherever

Table Of Contents

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; What are these letters?; Love and friendship; Violence and fear; Belief and knowledge; Power and order; Self and others; Life and death; Body and mind

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