Books with title Marriage

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"Focuses on the pros and cons of marriage in the United States--including covenant marriages, same-sex unions, and the effect of divorce on kids--through personal stories, opinions, and scholarly studies. Provides a historical look at marriage and includes up-to-date reports and statistics"--Provided by publisher.Examines the pros and cons of marriage in the United States through personal stories, opinions, and scholarly studies, including such topics as covenant marriages, same-sex unions, and the effect of divorce on children.

There was a man named Webster who lived in a town of twenty-five thousand people in the state of Wisconsin. He had a wife named Mary and a daughter named Jane and he was himself a fairly prosperous manufacturer of washing machines. He was a rather quiet man inclined to have dreams which he tried to crush out of himself in order that he function as a washing machine manufacturer. And so there was this Webster, drawing near to his fortieth year, and his daughter had just graduated from the town high school. It was early fall and he seemed to be going along and living his life about as usual and then this thing happened to him. Down within his body something began to affect him like an illness. It is a little hard to describe the feeling he had. It was as though something were being born. Had he been a woman he might have suspected he had suddenly become pregnant.

"A time will come when love like a sheet of fire will run through the towns and cities. It will tear walls away. It will destroy ugly houses. It will tear ugly clothes off the bodies of men and women. They will build anew and build beautifully," declares John Webster, a quiet middle-aged businessman who has repressed his dreams in order to function as a washing machine manufacturer. Webster gradually awakens to the inner voices that encourage him to abandon his job and family and live what he believes to be the truth of life. His search for spiritual salvation leads to the embrace of a gospel of sexual emancipation — a complete and absolute acceptance of the flesh, without shame or guilt.Praised by F. Scott Fitzgerald as Sherwood Anderson's finest work, Many Marriages reflects the complacency of the United States in the early 20th century. The country had pursued material comfort and profit until it settled into a process as automatic and mechanical as any of Webster's washing machines. Sex, Anderson proclaimed, could serve as the medium for self-realization and universal communion, returning society to the purity of a preindustrial state. This psychological novel, like works by Sigmund Freud and D. H. Lawrence, excited a scandal upon its 1923 publication, and it remains a landmark in American literature's advance toward sexual openness.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1782. Ferrier published three novels anonymously. Her first novel, Marriage, was written in 1818. Six years later she wrote The Inheritance and Destiny was written in 1831. She writing is most notable for it's sardonic wit. Marriage is the story of a woman's struggle with courtship and parental authority. Adelaide and Maria are twin sisters. Maria was reared by her aunt in Scotland. She has good judgment and learns from her experiences. Adelaide is rash and takes after her English mother. Maria is faced with the rigors of big city life in London. Ferrier uses her novel to show the virtues of a good woman who leaves her calm domestic life in Scotland. By using a Scottish heroine Ferrier is challenging the prejudices of 19th century England toward the Scots.

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1923 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Many Marriages' is a novel about a changing society and people's relationships within it. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels. He moved to Chicago, where he found work in an advertising agency and became friends with other writers in Chicago, including Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht and Carl Sandburg. Starting in 1914, the now-politicised Anderson began having his work published in 'The Masses', a socialist journal. Anderson's first novel, 'Windy McPherson's Son', was published in 1916. This was followed by the novel 'Marching Men' (1917) and a collection of prose poems, 'Mid-American Chants' (1918). A year later, 'Winesburg, Ohio' (1919), Anderson's best-remembered and best-known work, was published.