Alain De Botton

• Jun-2016
• / Literary
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The long-awaited and beguiling second novel from Alain de Botton that tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership, from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. De Botton’s essay “Why You Wil...

• Jan-2005
• / General Fiction
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“There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status -- a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who’s e...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction
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A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times). Alain de Botto...

• May-1996
• / General Fiction
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Presents a challenge to biographical norms by setting out to chart the life of someone unknown, intimate with their biographer, and still alive. The subject of the book is Isabel Rogers, a 25-year-old Londoner, and her biographer's approach to her li...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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Looks at the psychology of men and women in love, as it portrays a modern relationship between Alice and Eric. Some of the themes explored include the question of knowing one`s partner in a relationship, the issue of power between people, and the ...

• May-1995
• / General Fiction
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Charting the progress of an affair, from first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to anxiety, this is a wholly modern attempt to define the age-old dilemmas of the heart by detailing the highs and lows of contemporary r...

• 1993
• / General Fiction
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Before How Proust Can Change Your Life, before The Art of Travel, there was On Love, the utterly charming debut that introduced Alain de Botton to readers everywhere. Now he revisits the internationally best-selling novel in a new edition of this cla...