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ALSO BY ALAIN DE BOTTON
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Alain de Botton
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition June 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Botton, Alain de, author.
The course of love : a novel / Alain de Botton. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
pages cm
I. Title.
PR6054.E1324C68 2016
823'.914—dc23
ISBN 978-1-5011-3425-8
ISBN 978-1-5011-3443-2 (ebook)