num_pages: 76
description: A collection of poems, each of which takes a famous male person or character - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontious Pilate, King Kong - and presents their story from the perspective of the lesser-known wife.
language: English
title: The World's Wife
titlecomplete: The World's Wife
genres: Retellings, Classics, Feminism, Adult, Fiction, School, 20th Century, Mythology, Poetry, Womens
ratings_count: 8811
publisher: Pan Books Ltd