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<DIV><B>Marriage Plot, The</B><BR></div><DIV><DIV><b><i>A Madman in Love</i></b></div><DIV><b>T</b>o start with, look at all the books. There were her Edith Wharton novels, arranged not by title but date of publication; there was the complete Modern Library set of Henry James, a gift from her father on her twenty-first birthday; there were the dog-eared paperbacks assigned in her college courses, a lot of Dickens, a smidgen of Trollope, along with good helpings of Austen, George Eliot, and the redoubtable Brontë sisters. There were a whole lot of black-and-white New Directions paperbacks, mostly poetry by people like H.D. or Denise Levertov. There were the Colette novels she read on the sly. There was the first edition of <i>Couples</i>, belonging to her mother, which Madeleine had surreptitiously dipped into back in sixth grade and which she was using now to provide textual support in her English honors thesis on the marriage plot. There was, in short, this mid-size but still portable library representing pretty much everything Madeleine had read in college, a collection of texts, seemingly chosen at random, whose focus slowly narrowed, like a personality test, a sophisticated one

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Author

Jeffrey Eugenides, Jeffery Eugenides

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374203054

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.43 / 5 (91,495 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14