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Alain de Botton

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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Part biography, part literary critique, part self-help primer, this lovely little book describes the lessons one may learn from one of the masterworks...

Kiss & Tell
An ex-girlfriend accuses the narrator of being incapable of empathy. While in a book store sometime later, he decides that he will write the biograph...

On Love
The story begins when the nameless narrator, sitting in a British Airways jet, on its way from Paris the London, shares a sandwich with his fellow pas...

The Consolations of Philosophy
A light introduction to some of history's great thinkers. The life and times of six philosophers are related to the modern condition. Did their philos...

The Romantic Movement
The Romantic Movement charts the relationship of a man and a woman. More specifically it charts the relationship of Alice, a young and somewhat ideal...

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