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- Original language: English
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About the Author
Adrian Hodges directs the Americas operation of The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (PWIBLF). He specializes in issues of corporate social responsibility as they relate to international business strategy and practice. He has managerial experience in business, local government, and non-governmental organizations, and was worldwide Head of Corporate Communications for The Body Shop International. David Grayson is a director of Business in the Community and of the pubic affairs consultancy EPPA. He has led a number of private-public institutions concerned with small business, disability, and business development. He is a regular speaker to businesses and business schools internationally. Between them, the author's have 40 years' experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, working around the world with international business leaders and managers to help them understand and respond to rising expectations and emerging management issues. Everybody's Business is published in association with The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum and Business in the Community. It is sponsored by the public affairs consultancy EPPA.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Simply the greatest . . .
By A Customer
My first exposure to this book was ten years ago, when in the LSU library I stumbled upon some very old, very dusty books. Being intrigued by old books, I found his simple titles (Adventures in Contentment, Adventures in Friendship, Adventures in Solitude, etc.) irresistible. I read 5 David Grayson (Ray Stannard Baker's pseudonym) books in two days. I returned them to the library, then soon afterward moved to California. I could not remember Grayson's name, though I would tell stories about those wonderful books that influenced my life and my writing.
7 years later, I came across a 90 year old copy of Adventures in Contentment, and found that it struck me as even more profound, having tasted a little of the cynical world that drove the main character from the city to the farm. This is the only book I have ever read that made me cry tears of human experience -- and then the very next chapter had me laughing out loud. (I was sitting at a coffee house with my friends when this happened, after which they wanted to borrow the book.)
If you are a person of thought, this book will move you. Grayson will take you on a tour of his farm and his mind. You will give him a voice, and you will hear that voice speak the words as you read. You will quote this book, you will reread this book, you will think of this book with the fondness of a close friend.
The simplicity of the essays will charm you, his masterful vocabulary will force you to grab your dictionary, and his expressive literary patterns will strike you as being as close to poetry as prose could possible come.
A picture may say 1000 words, but David Grayson's simple essays about small town life in the early 1900's will paint more vivid images in your mind than 1,000,000 Michaelangelos ever could. Simply stated, this is the greatest literary work ever written. Unfortunately, modern literary critics refer to this type of work as unimportant, sentimental and preachy. So this book will probably never be placed in its rightful spot in the literary canon.
Still, don't think the author died in obscurity without his talent being discovered. He was a lifelong friend of Woodrow Wilson, and in his old age, Ray Stannard Baker won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of his famous friend.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Most delightful book I have ever read.
By Ashutosh Kalsi (kalsi@acsu.buffalo.edu)
I wonder why there aren't any reviews on this book? It is the greatest book ever written. This book is about a person who has found a perfect harmony in life. Escaping all the scholastic philosophy and theological quest David Grayson here settles for what I regard the highest wisdom and the true purpose of life, and that is living. The book is potrayal of extra-ordinary experiences of a farmer poet who discovers a world within and without and adds a dream world quality with a sense of humour to our everyday experiences. A return to nature, beauty, simplicity, spontaniety and harmony!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Mildly oxymoronic title for a great work.
By B. Cooner
Thoughts of contentment and serenity don't conjure up the kinds of images we might associate with harrowing adventure, which makes the title of this book stand out. But as you read you realize the adventure the title describes is of a mental sort, and it begins to make sense.
This is a brief snapshot of a turn of the century farmer's bucolic life. The book doesn't go into too great detail of the farmer's daily routines, but that isn't the point. We see that the way the farmer's mental framework meshes with the quiet rhythms and surroundings of his life leads to a sense of singular purposefulness to his work and the importance of doing his job well. But the book doesn't paint the farm life as being entirely simple. It shows glimpses of a deep well of specialized knowledge and attention to detail required of the farmer to do his job well. The contentment this produces colors his interactions with various people he meets in the book, and paints a picture of the kind of person we all wish were more common.
The writing shows its age, but it has aged gracefully. Verbose and flowering where it needs to be, but it is never difficult to read. The farmer's descriptions of the shapes and colors of his farm and the emotions they evoke in him are vivid and moving, something not easily accomplished by a writer of any age. Underpinning the serenity produced by his love of the land is a sophisticated but elegant religious outlook that is probably uncommon for the age.
Will this book ever rank with the giants of literature? Probably not. Among its philosophical kind it will most likely always be overshadowed by more well known and dense works by the likes of Thoreau. But I can imagine the lead character of the book would be amused by that fact, understanding that the joys of the kind celebrated by this book just aren't what everyone seeks.
Perhaps the greatest praise I can offer is simply that I rarely find an author who I am compelled to read beyond a single volume. Yet upon finding out that Baker wrote a series of books along this theme, I am compelled to seek out and read more of his work.
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