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The author's masterpiece is re-printed here, along with incisive commentary by H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, J. B. Priestly, Rebecca West, Somerset Maugham, and Henry James. Reprint.
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ntroduction by Francine Prose<br>Commentary by Rebecca West, W. Somerset Maugham,<br>Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Henry James, and J. B. Priestley<br><br>" [Arnold Bennett's] superb Old Wives' Tale, wandering from person to person and from scene to scene, is by far the finest 'long novel' that has been written in English and in the English fashion, in this generation."<br>--H. G. Wells<br><br>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 cosmopoli
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