Download or read book The Second Mrs. Tanqueray written by Arthur Wing Pinero and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aubrey Tanqueray willingly withdraws from London society to marry his second wife, for Paula Ray has had a notorious past. She has all the warmth that Aubrey's first wife lacked. But in the country, ostracized by the respectable, their relationship becomes intolerably strained. Paula realises that her past will always harm those she loves. Even before Aubrey is told of Paula's suicide he curses men of his class who wreak such incalculable harm merely by leading a 'man's life'.