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A Classic Masterpiece Tale of Family Life by Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale by English author Arnold Bennett is a book of literary fiction first published in 1908 in the United Kingdom. Initially inspired by a chance encounter of an elderly women in a Parisian restaurant, this is one of Bennett's finest works filled with parallels contrasts and irony.
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Always, before the bath, she had to drink a glass of wine, and sometimes another glass while she was in the bath. Beyond this wine, and occasionally a cup of soup, she took nothing, had no wish to take anything. She grew perfectly accustomed to these extraordinary habits of life, to this merging of night and day into one monotonous and endless repetition of the same rite amid the same circumstances on exactly the same spot. Then followed a period during which she objected to being constantly wakened up for this annoying immersion. And she fought against it even in her dreams.
Synopsis
The Old Wives' Tale follows the lives of two very different Baines sisters; Constance and Sophia over the course of 70 years, from their youth working in the family drapery shop in Bursley to their married lives, to the modern industrial era, when they reunite as old women. This is an incredible account of an ordinary young woman whose future is unaffected by the complexities of history and the moments they are unable to understand or avoid. A gem of literary realism, this novel explores the effects of modernity on the lives of two English sisters in the 19th century.
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• Original 1908 text
• Literary fiction
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