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An Emotional Education - Limited Collector’s Edition

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$112.5 $150 In stock

Category: Book

How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century

Emotional intelligence shapes how we love, how we work, and how at ease we feel in our own minds. Yet it's rarely taught - and rarely well understood.

Over a decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our emotional intelligence. To mark that decade, his introduction to The School of Life's thinking has been reimagined in collaboration with design studio OK-RM as a three-volume collector's edition: a first volume that distils the book to its essentials, and two that follow the fuller text at a slower pace, housed together in a slipcase marked as an edition of 250. Once they're gone, this edition won't return.

For anyone who already owns and returns to An Emotional Education, or for someone who's just beginning to think seriously about their emotional life - this is a set to give as much as to keep.

Hardback, three-volume set in slipcase | Edition of 250 | Vol I 48pp, Vol II 400pp, Vol III 624pp | 198mm x 130mm

Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Steven ★★★★★

I’m usually skeptical of “collector’s” anything, but the embossed cover and heavier paper stock make this feel like a real object to keep, not just a book to finish. The chapters on handling envy and regret genuinely slowed me down and made me rethink a few habits. A worthy splurge for anyone who li

Penelope ★★★★★

The collector's edition feels substantial in hand, and the way the chapters break down emotional habits into daily, practical steps has genuinely shifted how I handle stressful moments at work. It's the kind of book you end up buying for three other people before you’ve even finished it.

Leo ★★★★★

I’ve been reading a chapter each night before bed and it’s genuinely shifted how I handle tense moments at work. The essays are dense but never preachy, and the collector’s binding makes it feel like a keepsake I’ll actually revisit.