Andre Maurois, a classic of 20th-century French literature, a prose writer and essayist, an astonishing erudite, the author of famous romanticized biographies of Dumas, Balzac, Hugo, Byron, Turgenev, Chopin, and many others, is considered a true master of psychological prose, and his late novel «September Roses», where the author again explores the subtlest shades of human passions, is in no way inferior to the beloved by Russian readers «Letters to an Unknown Woman» and «The Twists of Love». The hero of «September Roses» is not very young, but a very successful writer, Guillaume Fontaine, whose books are read throughout France. In his life, which is perfectly arranged by his caring and jealous wife, everything goes its course, but he lacks a miracle — a miracle of love, thanks to which the autumn of life will once again become spring and roses will bloom in September….
