Books - The School of life: Collected Essays

Among these, we find:

• On Confidence: a guide to throwing off inhibition and shame in the name of a more free and creative life

• Self-Knowledge: a method for knowing ourselves better in order to make optimal choices in love and work

• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: a paradoxically hopeful and wry survey of the trials and joys of marriage

In elegant and always clear prose, the essays take us on a tour around the central topics of emotional life, leaving us enlightened, calmer and readier to greet our inevitable challenges. The book amounts to nothing less than a concise compendium of some of the wisest things we'll ever need to know.