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1) Marriage
Marriage features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R.A.G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airplane Trafford is piloting crashes into the garden of a house
...2) A Marriage
A young man debates the merits of marrying his mistress. Whatever he decides, his choice will bring consequences which he must live with. Ella D'Arcy was an English short fiction writer of the late 19th and early 20th century. Born in London, she was educated in London, Germany, France and the Channel Islands. This short story, like many of her others, was originally published in the literary magazine The Yellow Book.
George Meredith (1828 – 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was appointed to the Order of Merit by King Edward VII in 1905 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. Because of his work as a publisher's reader for Chapman and Hall, he became friends with such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and J. M. Barrie.
Meredith's final novel,
...The Infernal Marriage is the eighth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain. The Infernal Marriage appeared in a series of editions of the New Monthly Magazine published from July to October 1834. Its story was never concluded because the remaining manuscripts were stolen from Disraeli's chambers, and he "never had the heart to undertake it again". Pluto,
...From New York Times bestselling author Katy Evans comes a hot romance about two strangers and their race to fall in love.
If someone had bet Nell a million dollars that she would be saying “I do” to a complete stranger on national television, she’d have called them crazy, but with her crushing student loan payments sending her deep into the
...By her 30th birthday, the free-spirited Claire Jennings must have both a husband and a career. Otherwise, she’ll lose her inheritance. Trevor Mathison, Headmaster of Brookshire School, needs both a sixth-grade teacher and a wife.
When a comedy of errors leads Claire’s grandfather, the Chairman of the Board, to believe Claire and Trevor are married, they play along - both too afraid to tell the older man
...He’s rich, successful—and has been faithfully married to his longtime girlfriend for nearly one gruelingyear. Because for Dr. Dorian Graham, too many women is never too much—no matter how loyal his wife, Shantae, has been since their college days. So when she proposes they celebrate their first anniversary by each spending a no-questions-asked, no-consequences...
11) A Good Marriage
Darcy Anderson’s husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his routine business trips when the unsuspecting Darcy looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a hidden box under a worktable and in it she discovers a trove of horrific evidence that her husband is two men—one, the benign father...
Three years ago, Mary Jo Summerhill fell completely and utterly in love with Evan Dryden. But she was a kindergarten teacher, and he was a Boston blue blood with political ambitions. His family said she wasn’t the “right kind of wife” for Evan....
13) A Good Marriage
Jack and Adam soon fall in love, but their relationship is far from perfect. After three years, the inevitable happens: he and Jack split -- but so do Jack's parents, David and Linda....
An arranged marriage becomes inconvenient for two Sri Lankan Brits in this novel of love, family, and living your truth.
Chaya is a young woman torn between her duty to family and her life in the UK. While her traditional Sri Lankan parents want her to settle down into marriage, they don’t know that Chaya, terrified of their disapproval, has turned away the one true love of her life, Noah.
Gimhana is hiding his
In The Happy Marriage, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun tells the story of one couple—first from the husband’s point of view, then from the wife’s—just as legal reforms are...
The Marriage of Esther: a Torres Straits Sketch / Guy Boothby
[Excerpt]: There was surely complete evidence before the house that the two ragamuffins particularised above were unpopular. So far the silent but contemptuous superiority of the taller, and the drunken and consequently more outspoken insolence of his companion, had failed to prepossess one single soul in their favour. Even the barman, upon whose professional affability the most
...Millie is happy that her childhood friend, Uriah Schrock, has returned to Harvest after decades away. He was sweet on Millie in their school days, but she only had eyes for her future husband. Now, there’s...
“Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose—they’re all here in this romp of a book.” —Oprah Daily
A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text Selection, Love Marriage is a glorious moving novel from Booker Prize shortlisted Monica Ali, who has “an inborn...
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