by Arnold Bennett · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140111538
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«The Old Wives' Tale» is the novel by Arnold Bennett, published by Penguin UK in paperback (624 pages, in English).
The novel follows the Baines sisters, Constance and Sophia, from their childhood in their father's draper's shop in Bursley to their reunion in old age. Their opposing paths separate a peaceful life in provincial England and another marked by the Franco-Prussian War, in a portrait of half a century of social change.
Fifth instalment of Arnold Bennett's The Five Towns series. Originally published in 1908.
For readers of English literary classics and historical fiction set in the Victorian era.
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
