{"product_id":"mens-wives-9781513206288","title":"Men's Wives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen’s Wives\u003c\/i\u003e (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Divided into three sections—“The Ravenswing”; “Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry”; and “Dennis Haggarty’s Wife”—\u003ci\u003eMen’s Wives\u003c\/i\u003e satirizes the married lives of England’s elite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn “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 \u003ci\u003eMen’s Wives\u003c\/i\u003e, a humorous collection of stories on marriages mostly disastrous, Thackeray effectively satirizes the lives and loves of his nation’s elite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Makepeace Thackeray’s \u003ci\u003eMen’s Wives\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graphic Arts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359499419991,"sku":"9781513206288","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781513206288.jpg?v=1754124833","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mens-wives-9781513206288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}