The Old Wives' Tale

'[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."

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.