Alain De Botton

• 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...

• 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...

• 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-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...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction
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Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.

Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of...

• Jan-2005
• / General Fiction
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We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this u...

• 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...