| Title | : | The Old Wives Tale |
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| Author | : | Arnold Bennett |
| Release | : | 2014-01-01 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | The Old Wives Tale | Arnold Bennett |
| Spanning nearly half a century, The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope, tracing as it does the effects of time on two sisters and their surroundings. The novel is a domestic story told with tenderness, and is concerned not with heroic statesmen or soldiers, but with small details of daily life in a way which demonstrates Bennett’s great debt to French realist writers. The action is concentrated mainly within the provincial town of Bursley, a startling contrast to Paris where Sophia and Gerald elope. |
