Fiction, Literary

The Old Wives' Tale

Name: The Old Wives' Tale
Author: Arnold Bennett
ISBN: 9780915864775

by Arnold Bennett, Anita Miller

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Synopsis

'[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.'
--H. G.

New York Times Book Review

"Threaded with a wry and ironical observations on the Victorian age."

About the Author, Arnold Bennett

Professor of English Literature at the University of Sydney, Margaret Harris is also the editor of Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns, published in World's Classics in January 1995.