Men's Wives

<p><I>Men's Wives</I> (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Divided into three sections-The Ravenswing; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry; and Dennis Haggarty's Wife-<I>Men's Wives</I> satirizes the married lives of England's elite.</p><p>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 <I>Men's Wives</I> a humorous collection of stories on marriages mostly disastrous Thackeray effectively satirizes the lives and loves of his nation's elite.</p><p>With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript this edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's <I>Men's Wives</I> is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.</p>