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Author Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931.

Title The old wives' tale / by Arnold Bennett.

Publication Info. New York : Modern Library, [1911?]

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION BENNETT, ARNOLD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  BENNETT, ARNOLD    Check Shelf
Description ix, 640 pages ; 17 cm.
Series The Modern Library of the world's best books
Modern library of the world's best books.
Summary The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives in the course of tracing the passage of time over three generations. 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.
Subject Sisters -- England -- Fiction.
Women -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Romance Ingles.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form: Online version: Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931. Old wives' tale. New York : Modern Library, [1911?] (OCoLC)756433238
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