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Men's Wives
Paperback
Series: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $8.99
ISBN13: 9781513271996
Publisher: Mint Ed
Published: Mar 2 2021
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Men's Wives (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Divided into three sections-The Ravenswing; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry; and Dennis Haggarty's Wife-Men's Wives satirizes the married lives of England's elite.
In Ravenswing, a novella, Captain Walker meets a beautiful young woman named Morgiana Crump. The daughter of an eccentric hotelier and a retired actress, Miss Crump is being prepared for marriage by her overeager parents. Struggling to compete with the countless suitors constantly crowding Miss Crump, Walker, an officer and a gentlemen, grows progressively disheartened. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry is a two-part story following one man from youth to adulthood. A fighter in his schoolboy days, Mr. Frank Berry is now a married man. When a chance encounter in Versailles reunites him with some old friends, however, his wife begins to fear that her husband is not yet ready to settle down. Dennis Haggarty's Wife is a short story tracing the journey from repulsion to marriage between a snobbish protestant Irishwoman and the Irishman she marries despite his Catholic heritage. Throughout Men's Wives, a humorous collection of stories on marriages mostly disastrous, Thackeray effectively satirizes the lives and loves of his nation's elite.
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