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The airport was originally just a transitional space during travel, where only "departures" and "arrivals" occurred. However, in the eyes of Alain de Botton, it has become a museum integrating various cultural aspects. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited to serve as the "first writer-in-residence" at Heathrow International Airport in the United Kingdom. He can get to know passengers from all over the world and interview all kinds of people, including security personnel, pilots, CEOs, and even airport chaplains; he can also enter and exit the departure hall, arrival hall, airport restricted area and airport hotel at will. De Botton uses his unique perspective to explore the familiar and mysterious "non-place" of the airport, observing the wonder and vulgarity, as well as the interaction between passengers and employees. A week later, based on what he saw and heard, and with his usual combination of humor and wisdom, he wrote this extraordinary cross-border cultural and creative work that explores travel, work, relationships and the nature of daily life. Let us know that being in an airport can be more enlightening than we give it credit for.

De Botton's only work about the wisdom of religion calls on everyone to learn something from religion for their own use and to comfort their souls. The world invented religion out of two core needs. These two needs are endless and secular society has not yet been able to respond particularly effectively. First, although humans have deep-rooted selfish thoughts and violent impulses, we ultimately need to live harmoniously together in social groups; second, we need to deal with various pains in life, whether it is frustration in the workplace, troubles in interpersonal relationships, the loss of loved ones, or dying of old age. Human beings are too prone to disasters. God may be dead, but the burning questions that once prompted us to establish Him still linger and still demand solutions. One can certainly remain a staunch atheist, but one can also find that religion can be useful, interesting, and comforting from time to time. Each religion has its own way of preaching and preaching, improving morality, creating community spirit, using art and architecture, inspiring believers to travel far to seek the Dharma, tempering their thoughts and inspiring wisdom, motivating people to be grateful for the beauty of spring, etc. Even after the core teachings of religion are abandoned, many specific contents of religion still retain their beneficial significance, and we should draw nourishment from them without shame to enrich secular life outside the sect.

British writer Alain de Botton became famous at the age of 23. His work has been translated into many languages ​​and has sold 2 million copies worldwide. It explores "love" from a philosophical perspective and teaches us how to understand, grasp and enjoy love. A young man and woman met on a plane from Paris to London, and a romantic relationship began. From the first kiss to the first quarrel, from intimacy to affection, from sweet joy to heartbreak, all the details of the interactions are meticulously and vividly recorded in this book. The author explores every stage of love on a philosophical level. With his calm and wise mind, he realizes rational and clear anatomy, helping people in love get out of the fog and re-understand love.

Alain de Botton analyzes the French writer Proust and his masterpiece. This is an easy-to-understand, funny and practical introduction to "In Search of Lost Time", revealing why Proust became a role model for life: seize the present, read for yourself, face pain, and enjoy love. "In Search of Lost Time" by the French writer Proust is a well-known work with world-class literary value, but it is daunting to readers due to its huge length. Alain de Botton's book, with its exquisite and humorous writing, successfully outlines a true and vivid spiritual portrait of Proust, and expresses the essence of this holy book from the perspective of life philosophy. This is not only an easy-to-understand literary introduction that reveals the true beauty of "In Search of Lost Time", it is also a humorous and insightful guide to life, telling us how to prioritize life, find a balance between freedom and compromise, experience the true meaning, and live a free and unrestrained life under the guidance of Proust.

De Botton takes the love story of Rabbi and Kirsten as the main theme, supplemented by philosophical and psychological thinking, from the budding of love to the sailing of love, from entering the siege to being trapped in the "city", to extramarital affairs, and finally through self-exploration, the complete process of detached acceptance of marriage, and every step of love and marriage. He made a calm and wise analysis at each stage, laying out his full and deep thinking through delicate situations and integrating concrete and real characters, until people gradually realized that the essence of love is not so much a passion as a skill that needs to be learned. Only by understanding this way can we have the calmness to see through thousands of sails, and accept marriage calmly after all the vicissitudes of life. This book is a work of essays, but also a philosophical, psychological, and sociological work full of wisdom that reveals the rules of love and marriage. It helps us no longer wander around the various dilemmas in the process of love and marriage, and rekindles our enthusiasm for life, and then understands: It is easy to fall in love, it only requires a moment of passion, but it is not easy to maintain love. It requires a lifetime of practice. What we should do is to break the illusion and love more pragmatically, healthily, and non-instinctively.

He has the critical depth of Milan Kundera and the deconstructive temperament of Roland Bartel; however, he has a more three-dimensional love thinking than Kundera and is more attuned to the lover's love nerves than Bartelle. He activates our new reading experience! Through his captivating writing, de Botton explores the tragedy and comedy of our inability to understand each other, making us less strangers to ourselves. As Dr. Johnson said, de Botton is the kind of writer who can write about the broom. In his writing, the broom is also alive. In the huge city of London, he and she were originally just two points so small that it was almost impossible to intersect. He had a sudden idea to describe the life of an ordinary woman he met by chance and complete an unprecedented biography. She longed to talk and was willing to let him use a magnifying glass to see into her joys and sorrows inch by inch. It turns out that no matter how trivial life is, there are thrills, and no matter how intense the emotions are, they will only become lighter in the end. Biography of a mortal? Love story? Life talk? When I read Alain de Botton's novel "Kiss and Tell", I always find it strange that he touches the itchy points and sore spots, but what I see in front of me is an expressionless face.

"The Collected Works of Alain de Botton (set of 13 volumes in total)" includes: "Falling in Love with Romance", "The Consolation of Philosophy", "Embracing Lost Time", "The Charm of Boring", "A Little Trip in the Airport", "Status Anxiety", "The Architecture of Happiness", "For Atheists", "Ode to Work", "The Art of Travel", "Kiss and Tell", "Love Notes", "The Turmoil of the News" and "Falling in Love with Romance".