The Vintage Book Of Marriage (Paperback)

Romantic love has spurred a million pens to pour out passion and longi ng, but conjugal love has never been considered romantic. 'Successful marriages', wrote Lord David Cecil, 'have seldom inspired successful p oetry. ' Bel Mooney has set out to prove him wrong in a fascinating and entertaining book on love, harmony, betrayal and forgiveness, for mar ried couples and would-be couples alike. This richly varied anthology f ollows the course of marriage from theories of Bertrand Russell and Sy dney Smith's, to proposals, wedding days - and nights - the domesticit y brought by daily life and the arrival of children, infidelity and fo rgiveness, up to the sad inevitability of the death of one spouse befo re the other. It will fascinate anyone interested in what Bel Mooney c alls 'one of the greatest tests of character any of us have to face. '