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Summary

Spanning nearly half a century, The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope, tracing as it does the effects of time on two sisters and their surroundings. The novel is a domestic story told with tenderness, and is concerned not with heroic statesmen or soldiers, but with small details of daily life in a way which demonstrates Bennett’s great debt to French realist writers. The action is concentrated mainly within the provincial town of Bursley, a startling contrast to Paris where Sophia and Gerald elope.

Duration: about 2 hours (02:23:45)
Publishing date: 2014-01-01; Abridged; Copyright Year: 2014. Copyright Statment: —

• Classics
• Contemporary Fiction