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The sequel to "Love Notes" is the pinnacle work with the theme of love. It is full of references and originality. It provides guidance for people in love, analyzes love from the perspective of a philosopher, and embraces philosophy from the perspective of love. The heroine Alice is a romantic who is full of fantasy about love. One day, at a banquet, she met the polite and funny Eric. Alice immediately falls in love, abandoning her usual independent female style and embracing the passion and sweetness of love. Eric is a skilful lover, gentle, considerate, and imaginative, but he is also a self-centered, pleasure-seeking man who is afraid of commitment. As time passes, love is in trouble and romance is about to be exhausted. At this moment, Philip, who had a completely different personality from Eric, appeared in front of Alice again, which fascinated her...

The creative source of the British hit TV series "Perfect Home" and the best model of life guide, with more than 200 pictures of buildings and artworks beautifully presented. This book is not a textbook-style history of Western architecture, nor is it an architectural appreciation manual or decoration guide. This latest work, written by de Botton over several years, examines from a very unique perspective a subject that seems familiar to us but is actually quite unfamiliar: the relationship between material architecture and our happiness. Why do people need buildings? Why does a certain kind of beautiful architecture please you? Why does this understanding of architectural beauty change? What is the connection between architecture and human happiness? De Botton's answers to these questions from the perspectives of philosophy, aesthetics and psychology are enough to subvert your daily clichés about architecture, and will prompt you to fundamentally change your established attitudes and pursuits towards architecture, and thus towards life and happiness.

"The Art of Travel" is an important work by Alan de Botton, a talented writer known as "the wonder of British literature". Since its publication in 2002, it has been on the best-seller list in the United Kingdom and the United States. The British "Sunday Times" commented: This book is like a perfect journey, teaching us how to be curious, thinking and observing, and making us passionate about life again. Pricking a needle into the dream at the end of "Love in Prague", the oozing light blue can color de Botton's journey. The true color of any journey is transformed by the blue of the heart and the blue of the mist, becoming an irresistible temptation; space loses its geographical meaning In the direction of the location, time lazily turned into a wisp of fragrance; only Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Van Gogh and de Botton, a talented man, connected the itinerary and words, and the resonance throbbed in the depths of the soul; walking with de Botton, the road ahead was a journey to a distant place or a return to home in the sunset...

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".