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Men's Wives

Author
William Makepeace Thackeray
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 16 minutes
ISBN
9781802569445
Published
31 October 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • marriage
  • domestic life
  • gender roles
  • 19th-century England
  • social satire
  • relationships
  • family dynamics
  • societal expectations
  • character studies
  • marital conflict

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Description

Thackeray’s interconnected sketches of husbands and wives under social pressure: devotion, folly, manipulation, and the quiet dramas of domestic life. Sharp satire with sympathy for how marriage shapes and warps people. Spoken as usable listening when you want the wit of the drawing room without a sermon on how to live together.

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) wrote Vanity Fair and a satirical England of snobs, soldiers, and Becky Sharp. Born in Calcutta, ruined young, he learned the world as a magazine man and then painted it at novel length. The narrator winks; the damage is real. Thirty-one titles here — more Fair than the one book everyone names. He drew as well as he wrote, and he never quite forgave society for being as silly as it is.

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