The Oxford Book of Marriage (Oxford paperbacks)

by HelgeRubinstein (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.25

  Marriages are not made in heaven or hell, but somewhere in between. In this splendid anthology, Hilary Rubinstein draws on the wit and wisdom of over two thousand years to trace the course of a marriage through all its various stages. Moving from passionate or painful proposals to the delights or disasters of the big day, the book touches on sex, children, death, and divorce before reaching the calmer waters of contented old age. Among those describing their feelings about and experiences of this most universal of subjects are writers as diverse as Darwin and Kafka, Rabelais and Jane Austen, Pepys and Virginia Woolf.

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $4.19

  Drawn from a time span of 2,000 years and from many different nationalities, these extracts show the feelings and experiences of marriage, through the writings of Darwin, Kafka, Rabelais, Jane Austen, Pepys, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, Alison Lurie, Albee amongst others. The editor charts the course of a marriage in twelve chapters, beginning with courtship and proposal and the wedding ceremony itself, through the establishment of married life, having children and ending with old age and death. As well as describing the happiness, the extracts look at the factors that lead to adultery or divorce.