An edition of The old wives' tale (1900)

The Old Wives' Tale

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An edition of The old wives' tale (1900)

The Old Wives' Tale

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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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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Pages
624

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Cover of: The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale
1999, Modern Library
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale: a novel
1995, McLeod & Allen
Microform in English
Cover of: The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
January 2, 1991, Penguin Classics
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Old Wives' Tale
The Old Wives' Tale
March 31, 1988, Penguin Books Ltd
Cover of: The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale
1950, Harper
in English
Cover of: The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale
1934, Johnathan Cape
in English
Cover of: The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale
1931, Jonathan Cape
in English
Cover of: The old wives' tale.
The old wives' tale.
1917, T. Nelson
in English
Cover of: The old wives' tale.
The old wives' tale.
1917, T. Nelson
Cover of: The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale
1911, Doubleday
in English
Cover of: The old wives' tale
The old wives' tale
1911, Modern Library
in English

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First Sentence

"Those two girls, Constance and Sophia Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious."

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7347850M
ISBN 10
0140111530
ISBN 13
9780140111538
Library Thing
58156
Goodreads
2796515

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