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The School of Life
- An Emotional Education
- By: Alain De Botton, The School of Life (PRH Rights)
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton, Charlie Anson
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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This is an audiobook about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.
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More Alain needed....
- By Amazon Customer on 15-10-19
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The School of Life
- An Emotional Education
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton, Charlie Anson
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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The Art of Travel
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
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Great book... better to read than listen though.
- By Thomas on 21-11-16
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The Art of Travel
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton explores the importance of buildings in our lives, pondering our attachment to our homes and considering such questions as: Why do people disagree about taste? Can beautiful surroundings make us good?
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A bit washy.
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-19
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The Architecture of Happiness
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-04-06
- Language: English
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Status Anxiety
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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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 his universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art, and politics - and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries. The result is a book that is not only entertaining and thought-provoking - but genuinely wise and helpful as well.
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An in depth look at the history of status
- By MayBee on 04-07-16
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Status Anxiety
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 17-08-12
- Language: English
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How to Think More About Sex
- The School of Life
- By: Alain de Botton, Campus London LTD (The School of Life)
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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View your sex life in a different light and learn how it can make you happier. Sex is the most intimately human experience there is. It is can also be the most confusing. Our desire to be together conflicts with our desire to avoid vulnerability and appear ‘normal’, leaving us detached, desensitised or embarrassed. Covering topics including adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st century sex will always be a balancing act of trust versus risk, and of primal desire versus studied civility.
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An interesting read
- By Timea on 14-12-14
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How to Think More About Sex
- The School of Life
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Series: School of Life
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-06-12
- Language: English
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The Romantic Movement
- Sex, Shopping and the Novel
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at every stage, supplemented by quizzes and commentary by a chorus of great philosophers, from Descartes to Plato to Aretha Franklin. The Romantic Movement will charm listeners and lovers alike with wit, insight, and intelligence.
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The Romantic Movement
- Sex, Shopping and the Novel
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-05-13
- Language: English
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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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 answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.
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Prose at its most elegant, beautifully performed
- By Lord Copper on 11-01-17
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-11-10
- Language: English
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The Course of Love
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next? Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact it is only the beginning.
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The Course of 'A Marriage' - not Love
- By Lexi Wolfe, Writer & Actress on 31-05-20
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The Course of Love
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-04-16
- Language: English
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking 16-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton heads into the office, the factory, the fishing fleet, and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest, and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also the planet?
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This book is a poem
- By Maria on 22-01-17
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-07-12
- Language: English
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Kiss and Tell
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathise, the narrator of Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life. He meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at a small stationery company in London, apparently an ordinary woman. But as the biographer's understanding of Isabel deepens, she becomes remarkable.
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Kiss and Tell
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-05-13
- Language: English
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On Seeing and Noticing
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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Alain de Botton believes that philosophy can help people enjoy happier lives. And in his numerous best sellers, from Status Anxiety to The Art of Travel, his unique blend of erudition and self-help has reached an audience eager to listen. In On Seeing and Noticing, Alain de Botton takes everyday concerns such as expressing sadness or being romantic and dispenses advice and observations based on the works of some of history's greatest writers, artists and thinkers.
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On Seeing and Noticing
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-02-13
- Language: English
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A Week at the Airport
- A Heathrow Diary
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world’s biggest airports, having been appointed its Writer-in-Residence. He spoke with everyone from airline staff and senior executives to travellers passing through, and based on these conversations he produced this extraordinary account of life at an airport and what it says about modern existence.
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A Week at the Airport
- A Heathrow Diary
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-07-13
- Language: English
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Goodbye Europe
- Writers and Artists Say Farewell
- By: Jessie Burton, Alain de Botton, Matt Haig, and others
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jenni Murray, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection. In this audiobook you'll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and brand new fiction from some of the most talented and important voices at work today, including Jessie Burton, Alain de Botton, Matt Haig, Richard Herring, Owen Jones, Mark Kermode, Robert Macfarlane, Kate Mosse, Chris Riddell, Lionel Shriver and many others.
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Goodbye Europe
- Writers and Artists Say Farewell
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jenni Murray, Joe Jameson, Jonathan Lynn, Tania Rodrigues, Tim Collins, Willow Nash
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-11-17
- Language: English
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Trost der Philosophie
- Eine Gebrauchsanweisung
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Jürgen Tarrach, August Zirner, Hansa Czypionka, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Geldmangel? Liebeskummer? Frustriert? Ihnen kann geholfen werden. An sechs typischen Krisen aus dem täglichen Leben führt Alain de Botton geistreich und amüsant vor, wie jedermann Trost, Rat und Ansporn in der Philosophie findet. In essayistischen Porträts geht er auf eine Reise durch 2400 Jahre abendländische Philosophiegeschichte und zeigt anhand der Leben und Werke von Sokrates, Epikur, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer und Nietzsche wie ein etwas anderer - nämlich philosophischer - Blick auf die Welt das Leben erträglicher machen kann.
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Trost der Philosophie
- Eine Gebrauchsanweisung
- Narrated by: Jürgen Tarrach, August Zirner, Hansa Czypionka, Christoph Waltz, Jasmin Tabatabai, Monica Bleibtreu
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: German
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La fatiga del amor [The Course of Love]
- By: Alain de Botton, Inga Pellisa Díaz
- Narrated by: Íñigo Álvarez de Lara
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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La historia de Rabih y Kristen se parece a la de muchos: una mujer y un hombre se encuentran, se enamoran y al cabo de poco tiempo se casan. Aquí podría acabar la novela con un «...y vivieron felices comiendo perdices», pero en realidad este es el momento en que empieza el verdadero viaje, la fatiga del amor.
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La fatiga del amor [The Course of Love]
- Narrated by: Íñigo Álvarez de Lara
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-11-21
- Language: Spanish
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Il corso dell'amore
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Andrea Oldani
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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A Edimburgo, Rabih e Kirsten si conoscono sul lavoro - lui architetto, lei funzionaria comunale - si piacciono, iniziano a frequentarsi, decidono di sposarsi e hanno dei figli. Una storia d'amore come tante. Potrebbe finire qui, con le tradizionali parole e vissero per sempre felici e contenti... Ma cosa succede dopo? Cosa succede una volta che la passione degli inizi lascia spazio alle prime difficoltà, alla noia, alla ripetitività degli anni passati insieme?
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Il corso dell'amore
- Narrated by: Andrea Oldani
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: Italian
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