Consolations of Philosophy
Pantheon Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Pantheon Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, May 2005. Trade Paperback. "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 ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone..... More
Picador USA, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Told by a former girlfriend that he lacks the necessary quality of empathy, the narrator of Kiss & Tell decides to write a biography of the next person who walks into his life. At a party, he meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at..... More
Vintage, January 2013. Trade Paperback. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton's bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion--without having to believe in any of it. He suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and..... More
Visual Editions, September 2013. Box. Every day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we re somewhere new, and somewhere we ve been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark, save and share. Today..... More