This Week’s Hot Reads: Nov. 26, 2012

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From a new translation of André Maurois’s semiautobiographical 1928 novel to the letters of the charming and kind William Styron. By Mythili Rao.

Published Nov. 26 2012 3:59PM EST

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Climates By André Maurois, translated by Adriana Hunter

A new translation of the bestselling 1928 French novel about a bourgeois man’s quest for the right atmosphere for love.

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Written in 1928 by French historian André Maurois, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the two marriages of Philippe Marcenat, a bourgeois paper-mill owner whose appetite...

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This Week’s Hot Reads: Nov. 26, 2012

From a new translation of André Maurois’s semiautobiographical 1928 novel to the letters of the charming and kind William Styron. By Mythili Rao.

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