The old wives' tale
(2011)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Barnes & Noble, 2011
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781411463622 MWT15345870, 1411463625 15345870
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Regarded as one of Bennett's finest The Old Wives' Tale (1908) was inspired by a chance encounter in a Parisian restaurant. It follows the lives of two very different French sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, from their youth, through their work in their mother's draper's shop, to old age. The 200,000-word masterpiece was written by hand in ten months during a period in which Bennett suffered from insomnia
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