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  <name><![CDATA[Alain de Botton]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com
 
He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'

His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love. The style of the book was unusual, because it mixed elements of a novel together with reflections and analyses normally found in a piece of non-fiction. It's a book of which many readers are still fondest.

Bibliography:
* Essays In Love (1993)
* The Romantic Movement (1994)
* Kiss and Tell (1995)
* How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)
* The Consolations of Philosophy (2000)
* The Art of Travel (2002)
* Status Anxiety (2004)
* The Architecture of Happiness (2006)
* The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009)]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Seneca, Marcel Proust, Montaigne, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Zurich</hometown>  <born_at>12/20/1969</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Art of Travel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alain de Botton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[On Love: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Consolations of Philosophy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Architecture of Happiness]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Status Anxiety]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alain de Botton]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alain de Botton]]></name>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Kiss &amp; Tell]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[On Seeing and Noticing (Pocket Penguin 70's #70)]]></title>
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