For better, for worse.
Contributors: Kling, Samuel G., 1910- joint comp.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Short stories
Description: Here we are / Dorothy Parker -- The danger of being too innocent / Honore de Balzac -- A service of love / O. Henry -- Mrs. Bullfrog / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw -- Just him and her / Ruth Suckow -- The man who tamed a shrew / Juan Manuel -- The Saturday night blues / Catharine Brody -- Married / TheodoreDreiser -- The conservatory / Guy de Maupassant -- A happy ending / Anton Chekhov -- The will / Thyra Samter Winslow -- The bride / Morley Callaghan -- Golden wedding / Ruth Suckow -- Crisis / Zona Gale -- Patient Griselda / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The love nest / Ring Lardner -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Too bad / Dorothy Parker -- Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife / James Thurber -- Predestined marriage / Li Fu-Yen -- Husbands grow on trees / Whitfield Cook -- Crepe de Chine / James Stephens -- Papago wedding/ Mary Austin -- The marriage of Cupid and Psyche / Lucius Apuleius -- Wedding night / Virginia Bird -- The man who married his wife / Frederic Boutet -- A quiet evening at home / Arthur Kober -- The helpmate / Anton Chekhov -- The log / Guy de Maupassant -- The wife / Washington Irving -- The golden Honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- Love and bread / August Strindberg -- The husband of Akoulka / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Little bride / Dorothy McCleary -- Second wife / Harry Harrison Kroll -- The matron of Ephesus / Gaius Petronius -- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton -- A fickle widow / Anonymous -- The tale of Mistress Frances / George Gascoigne -- Darling / James Stephens -- The fishwife's tale / Anonymous -- Childless / Ignat Herrmann.
Notes: At head of title: Esther B. Kling and Samuel G. Kling.
"A collection of stories dealing with the theme of marriage."-- Foreword.
"First printing."