The old wives' tale
by Arnold Bennett and Intro. & Notes John Wain Arnold Bennett
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First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters—shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia—over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of Staffordshire to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris, while the action moves from the subdued domestic routine of the Baines household to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Social life and customs, Older women, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, Fiction, Literature, Sisters, Classic Literature, Women, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Realism and naturalism, Satire, Brothers and sisters, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, family life, general, Sisters, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Great britain, social life and customs, fiction, Fiction, family life, Manners and customs, English language, study and teaching, foreign speakersPlaces
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The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
January 2, 1991, Penguin Classics
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Reprint of the 1911 ed. published by G. H. Doran, New York.
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