New York: The Modern Library (Random House). (1911) Book Very Good in a Poor Dust Jacket. This chronicle of the five towns and France during the seige of Paris is a literary undertaking of heroic proportions. This is a classic among twentieth-century novels. Green boards with black title blocks to front and spine. Name to half title page. . France-Fiction Seige of Paris-Fiction. Catalogs: Classics.

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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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Bookseller: Gilt Edge Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: A1341
Title: The Old Wives Tale
Author: Bennett, Arnold
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Modern Library (Random House)
Place of Publication: New York
Bookseller catalogs: CLASSICS;

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