The Old Wives' Tale
Author(s): Arnold Bennett
Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work 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.
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Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) His first novel, A Man From the North, appeared in 1898 and in 1900 he finished The Grand Babylon Hotel, published in 1902, and began Anna of the Five Towns (1902), in which he first started to use the Potteries of his boyhood as a setting for his novels. The Old Wives' Tale (1908) was written in France and it was followed by the Clayhanger trilogy: Clayhanger (1910), Hilda Lessways (1911) and These Twain (1916). His works also include several plays, two volumes of short stories and several other novels.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.426
- : 01 April 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm X 26mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Arnold Bennett
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.912
- : 624