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The old wives' tale,

Author: Arnold Bennett; Frank Swinnerton; John Austen
Publisher: New York, Heritage Press [1940]
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives as it tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days. They move from the family drapery shop in provincial Bursley during the repressive mid-Victorian period to old age in the modern era of mass marketing and the internal combustion engine. The  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arnold Bennett; Frank Swinnerton; John Austen
OCLC Number: 502050
Description: xxx, 729 p. col. frontis., ill., col. plates. 26 cm.
Responsibility: by Arnold Bennett. With an introduction by Frank Swinnerton and a preface by the author. Illustrated by John Austen.

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The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives as it tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days. They move from the family drapery shop in provincial Bursley during the repressive mid-Victorian period to old age in the modern era of mass marketing and the internal combustion engine. The setting ranges from the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Bursley to a Paris brothel, the action from the controlled domestic routine of the Baines household to wife murder and the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1.

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