Mint Editions, Belletristik, Men/'s Wives (Englisch, William Makepeace Thackeray, 2021)

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. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Makepeace Thackeray¿s Men¿s Wives is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.