The Marriage Novel: What happens after the wedding

Fiction about marriage itself — its compromises, betrayals, and quiet endurance — from the great realists of domestic life.

In this collection

• The Lament of a Vanquished Beau
• If God Is in My Verse
• An Autumn Song
• Historia Amoris
• Equal Suffrage in Australia
• The Mayor's Wife
• The Woman
• Early One Morning
• Songs for Parents: Parade
• What is to be Done?
• The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven
• Ronicky Doone
• Godolphin, Volume II
• The Measure of the Cross
• The Valley of the Shadow of Death
• Not One of Us
• Eccentric Mr. Clark
• Shrewsbury
• The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste
• At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
• Jikininki
• Alarm and Pride
• Being a Summary Statement of the Investigation Made by the British Government
• The False Prince
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