Balzac addresses the reader directly as a husband and walks him through every small misery of matrimony: the arranged introduction, the doting mother-in-law, the first child, money, jealousy, and the friend Madame de Fischtaminel. In a second part the perspective turns, and the petty troubles are seen through the eyes of the wife.
A witty, knowing satire on bourgeois marriage from the author of La Comédie humaine. Download the free EPUB.