Road to Character The

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How would you like to be remembered? In our success-driven lives, we can overlook what gives existence true meaning. This astonishing bestseller will help you on a journey to discover who you really are and embrace a simple truth: in order to fulfil yourself, you must learn to forget yourself.

'Profound and eloquent.' Andrew Solomon

'A powerful, haunting book that works its way beneath your skin.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian

'A hyper-readable, lucid, often richly detailed human story . . . In the age of the selfie, Brooks wishes to exhort us back to a semiclassical sense of self-restraint.' Pico Iyer, TheNew York Times Book Review

'A pitch-perfect clarion call for awakening to the greatest rewards of living.' Maria Popova