The Physiology of Marriage

By De Balzac, Honore

Book Id: WPLBN0000622574
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Physiology of Marriage
Author:	De Balzac, Honore
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: DEDICATION Notice the words: The man of distinction to whom this book is dedicated. Need I say: ?You are that man.? The AUTHOR. The woman who may be induced by the title of this book to open it, can save herself the trouble; she has already read the work without knowing it. A man, however malicious he may possibly be, can never say about a woman as much good or as much evil as they themselves think. If, in spite of this notice, a woman will persist in reading the volume, she ought to be prevented by delicacy from despising the author, from the very moment that he, forfeiting the praise which most artists welcome, has in a certain way engraved on the title page of his book the prudent inscription written on the portal of certain establishments: Ladies must not enter.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Physiology of Marriage, 1 -- Honore de Balzac, 1 -- Dedication, 1 -- Introduction, 2 -- FIRST PART. A GENERAL CONSIDERATION, 7 -- MEDITATION I. THE SUBJECT, 7 -- MEDITATION II. MARRIAGE STATISTICS, 12 -- MEDITATION III. OF THE HONEST WOMAN, 17 -- MEDITATION IV. OF THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN, 21 -- MEDITATION V. OF THE PREDESTINED, 29 -- MEDITATION VI. OF BOARDING SCHOOLS, 40 -- MEDITATION VII. OF THE HONEYMOON, 46 -- MEDITATION VIII. OF THE FIRST SYMPTOMS, 53 -- MEDITATION IX. EPILOGUE, 59