Read by Samuel West

This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography
with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s
French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets
of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone
on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope
with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight
as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun
at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives.

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