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Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot pr ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can ...Show more
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion
"Essays in Love" will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work's genius lies in the way it m ...Show more
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. This book charts the progress of a relationship between a man and a woman, from their first kiss to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work’s genius lies in the way it minutely analysis emotions we’ ...Show more
HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE by DE BOTTON ALAIN
Category: Audio Books
The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Pro ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your LIfe by Alain de Botton
Category: Audio Books
The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Prou ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Category: Personal Development
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features is ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by De Botton Alain
Category: Languages and Reference
"A self-help manual for the intelligent person...witty, funny and tonic". -- The New York Times Book Review For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In, Search of Lost Time (while bedridden, no less), Alain de Botton has the answ ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
How To Think More About Sex by Alain De Botton, The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex.Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the ...Show more
How to Get Married (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
Category: Pregnancy
Many of us are attracted to the idea of marriage and yet feel a bit uncomfortable with some of the rituals that are traditionally associated with the big day. Perhaps the old ceremonies place too much emphasis on theology or else seem out of step with some of the complex realities of contemporary relati ...Show more