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Revelations of a Wife: The Story of a Honeymoon
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
334 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1917
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March 12, 2008
I read this book online at my last job, yes that job, where I sat and watched netflix all day. Anyway, this is a WONDERFUL old book about the first year of marriage. Madge and Dicky! Their first fight, in-laws, jealousy and a long lost love!
Here's the link if you want to read it online - http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/...
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January 10, 2012
I truly didn't know a thing about this book when I began reading it. I had certainly never heard of it. I had run across a free copy for my kindle. The title alone piqued my curiosity, and I had viewed the positive star average on goodreads, so I gave it try.
Set in New York City, it was clear as I began reading that it had not been written in recent times and curiosity drove me to look up the publishing date. I was surprised to find that it was written in 1915 and I was all the more curious to see how the "Revelations of a Wife" at that time stacked up to those in my era. What I found was a storyline that kept me engaged, while at times a bit melodramatic, with well defined, very interesting characters. This novel gave me such a clear picture of this upper-middle class group of friends (& enemies), their lifestyle, and timely culture. While there are clear differences in our gender roles today, as one would assume, what I found fascinating were the elements of a young marriage that remain the timeless propensities of human nature. There was the idealism, the hopeful innocence, the consuming passion, the near obsession as to their mate's 24 hour schedule and whereabouts. Then came the inevitable entrance of conflict, unexpected challenges, illness, temptation, jealousy, manipulation, secrets, and the complexity of conflicting emotions that arise because your marriage does not exist in a vacuum.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book that I had never heard of, I rarely ever give 5 stars but if I could give 4.5 here, I would.
Set in New York City, it was clear as I began reading that it had not been written in recent times and curiosity drove me to look up the publishing date. I was surprised to find that it was written in 1915 and I was all the more curious to see how the "Revelations of a Wife" at that time stacked up to those in my era. What I found was a storyline that kept me engaged, while at times a bit melodramatic, with well defined, very interesting characters. This novel gave me such a clear picture of this upper-middle class group of friends (& enemies), their lifestyle, and timely culture. While there are clear differences in our gender roles today, as one would assume, what I found fascinating were the elements of a young marriage that remain the timeless propensities of human nature. There was the idealism, the hopeful innocence, the consuming passion, the near obsession as to their mate's 24 hour schedule and whereabouts. Then came the inevitable entrance of conflict, unexpected challenges, illness, temptation, jealousy, manipulation, secrets, and the complexity of conflicting emotions that arise because your marriage does not exist in a vacuum.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book that I had never heard of, I rarely ever give 5 stars but if I could give 4.5 here, I would.
September 30, 2014
Revaluations of a Wife by Adele Garrison had been recommended to me, hence the reason why I read it. Ever since I was 13, I swore once a book was started, I would finish it, but I'm sorry, I nearly gave up with this one.
To be fair, she is a superb writer and perhaps I should have other works of hers to get a feel of her style, but a revaluation of a Wife did nothing for me. Admittedly my type of literature has changed recently, and I must assure you it is not the writing technique, which was enjoyable just in the method she chose her expressive words. It all boiled down to story line. The. Outline of the story is not deceptive, so i had a rough ideal what I was about to read, it was the subject matter and I feel slightly unbelievable. But go ahead. Prove me wrong and let me know what you think, thus cancelling out this negative review.
To be fair, she is a superb writer and perhaps I should have other works of hers to get a feel of her style, but a revaluation of a Wife did nothing for me. Admittedly my type of literature has changed recently, and I must assure you it is not the writing technique, which was enjoyable just in the method she chose her expressive words. It all boiled down to story line. The. Outline of the story is not deceptive, so i had a rough ideal what I was about to read, it was the subject matter and I feel slightly unbelievable. But go ahead. Prove me wrong and let me know what you think, thus cancelling out this negative review.
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