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The old wives' tale
Title
The old wives' tale / by Arnold Bennett.
Publication
New York : Modern Library, [between 1931 and 1972?]
Copyright Notice Date
©1911
Physical Description
ix, 640 pages ; 19 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z41 0036: With dust jacket, circa 1954 (based on list of titles printed inside jacket). Bookplate of George Thomas Tanselle.
Notes
Not a first edition.
The Old Wives' Tale was printed as part of The Modern Library from 1931 to 1972.
"Manufactured in the United States of America; Printed by Parkway Printing Company; Bound by H. Wolff"--Title page verso.
Dust jacket design signed by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Summary
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives in the course of tracing the passage of time over three generations. It tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days. They move from the family drapery shop in provincial Bursley during the repressive mid-Victorian period to old age in the modern era of mass marketing and the internal combustion engine. The setting ranges from the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Bursley to a Paris brothel, the action from the controlled domestic routine of the Baines household to wife murder and the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1.
Other formats
Online version: Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931. Old wives' tale. New York : Modern Library, [1911?]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
The Modern Library of the world's best books ; [no. 184]
Contents
Book I. Mrs. Baines
Book II. Constance
Book III. Sophia
Book IV. What life is.
References
Andes, G. M. Descriptive Bibliography of The Modern Library, 1917-1970, page 25
Neavill, G. B. Bibliography of The Modern Library, 1925-1959, 207
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Also listed under
Modern Library (Firm), publisher.
Parkway Printing Company, printer.
H. Wolff, Inc., binder.
United States New York (State) New York.
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