The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping and the Novel

Nice first printing of De Botton's second novel. From the author of How Proust can Change Your Life, this novel looks at the pitfalls of relationships while looking at what some philosophers have had to say on the subject of love (Descartes, Rousseau. D.H. Lawrence, Aretha Franklin). Near fine in a like jacket. Hardcover, First Edition. ISBN 0312131593. Picador, New York, 1995. 001972