The Old Wives' Tale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781727032925)

The Old Wives' Tale tells the story of the Baines sisters shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the lives of the sisters 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. The setting moves from the Five Towns of the Staffordshire Potteries to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris. It was fascinating to learn from Bennett's journal how he saw an old lady in a cafe and was inspired to think of how her life might have been lived, how she must have once been young. The plot of the novel came to him fairly promptly, and, as they say, the rest is history.

Author: Arnold Bennett
ISBN-10: 1727032926
ISBN-13: 9781727032925
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2018
Pages: 818
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.36lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.62d