The book "Marriage in a Free Society" by the famous English writer Edward Carpenter is an important work that explores the topic of marriage and family in a free society. The author highlights ideas about the latest approaches to marriage, relations between a man and a woman, as well as the role of the family in modern society. Carpenter examines the issue of marriage from the point of view of conventions-free traditions aimed at building harmonious and mutually beneficial relations between partners. This book encourages readers to think about the meaning of marriage in modern society and offers alternative ways of perceiving and implementing it.