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An edition of The old wives' tale (1900)

The old wives' tale

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First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it 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 sisters' lives 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 Staffordshire to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris, while the action moves from the subdued domestic routine of the Baines household to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

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Modern Library
Language
English
Pages
565

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Subjects
Social life and customs, Older women, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, Fiction, Literature, Sisters, Classic Literature, Women, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Realism and naturalism, Satire, Brothers and sisters, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, family life, general, Sisters, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Great britain, social life and customs, fiction, Fiction, family life, Manners and customs, English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers
Places
England, Great Britain
Times
19th century

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The old wives' tale
1999, Modern Library
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The old wives' tale: a novel
1995, McLeod & Allen
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The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
January 2, 1991, Penguin Classics
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The old wives' tale
1950, Harper
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The old wives' tale
1934, Johnathan Cape
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The old wives' tale
1931, Jonathan Cape
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1917, T. Nelson
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1917, T. Nelson
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The old wives' tale
1911, Modern Library
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The old wives' tale
1911, Doubleday
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Genre
Fiction.

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6003.E6 O4 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xli, 565 ;
Number of pages
565

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Open Library
OL45165M
Internet Archive
oldwivestalemode00arno
ISBN 10
0375754903
LCCN
99041699
Library Thing
58156
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188454

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