Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part
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PREFACE PART IIBalzac states that in Part II he will give the wife’s point of view. This should be interesting as he made it all the way through “The Physiology of Marriage” and half through “Petty Troubles of Married Life” without once providing a female point of view.HUSBANDS DURING THE SECOND MONTHCaroline and a boarding-school friend Stephanie talk on a balcony at a ball with a male friend listening unknown to them. They have both recently married, Stephanie supposedly to an ideal gentleman Armand. (from a blog on Balzac)
Chapters (25)
- PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE
- PREFACE
- PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE
- HUSBANDS DURING THE SECOND MONTH.
- DISAPPOINTED AMBITION.
- I. CHODOREILLE THE GREAT.
- II. ANOTHER GLANCE AT CHODOREILLE.
- THE PANGS OF INNOCENCE.
- THE UNIVERSAL AMADIS.
- WITHOUT AN OCCUPATION.
- "PARIS, 183-
- INDISCRETIONS.
- BRUTAL DISCLOSURES.
- A TRUCE.
- USELESS CARE.
- SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.
- THE DOMESTIC TYRANT.
- THE AVOWAL.
- HUMILIATIONS.
- THE LAST QUARREL.
- PAPERS RELATING TO CHAUMONTEL'S AFFAIR.
- A SIGNAL FAILURE.
- THE CHESTNUTS IN THE FIRE.
- ULTIMA RATIO.
- COMMENTARY.
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