The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Copyright © 2009 by Alain de Botton

Photographs (excepting those otherwise attributed on page 328) copyright ©

2009 by Richard Baker

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, published by the Penguin Group, Penguin Books, Ltd., London.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

De Botton, Alain

The pleasures and sorrows of work / Alain de Botton.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-37830-9

1. Work—Miscellanea. I. Title.

HD4901.D35 2008 306.3′6—dc22 2008046060

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