The third book in his sweeping Clayhanger Family series, These Twain recounts the courtship and marriage of Hilda Lessways and Edwin Clayhanger. It's a nuanced, complex depiction of the ups and downs of long-term intimate relationships, focusing on the ways that marriage can both help and hurt people, often at the same time.
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- THESE TWAIN
- Contents
- BOOK I - THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE
- Chapter I - The House
- Chapter II - Hilda on the Stairs
- Chapter III - Attack and Repulse
- Chapter IV - The Word
- Chapter V - Tertius Ingpen
- Chapter VI - Husband and Wife
- Chapter VII - The Truce
- Chapter VIII - The Family at Home
- Chapter IX - The Week-End
- Chapter X - The Orgreave Calamity
- BOOK II - THE PAST
- Chapter XI - Lithography
- Chapter XII - Dartmoor
- Chapter XIII - The Departure
- Chapter XIV - Tavy Mansion
- Chapter XV - The Prison
- Chapter XVI - The Ghost
- BOOK III - EQUILIBRIUM
- Chapter XVII - George's Eyes
- Chapter XVIII - Auntie Hamps Sentenced
- Chapter XIX - Death and Burial
- Chapter XX - The Discovery
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