Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was born in Hanley, Staffordshire. After a secondary school education, he wroked first for his father, a self-taught solicitor, and then moved to London as a shorthand clerk with a firm of solicitors. He began to write to make extra money and his first novel,
A Man From the North, appeared in 1898. In 1900 he finished
The Grand Babylon Hotel, published in 1902, and began
Anna of the Five Towns (1902), in which he first started to use the Potteries of his boyhood as a setting for his novels.
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) was written in France and it was followed by the Clayhanger trilogy:
Clayhanger (1910),
Hilda Lessways (1911) and
These Twain (1916). His works also include several plays, two volumes of short stories and several other novels.
You might find it hard to imagine that those ageing spinsters living quietly in small English towns ever led lives of passion or hardship, that they ever possessed beauty or romantic ideals. This title tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartbreak, triumphs and disasters, to old age.
‘There are few more moving accounts of the effects of time, the passage of history and the slow encroachment of age than this remarkable, epic novel’ Guardian Discover this powerful novel about the ordinary lives of the Baines sisters. The perfect next step for fans of Little Women.
In The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartbreak, triumphs and disasters, to old age. In doing so, he reveals with careful compassion the intense inner lives that throb beneath every seemingly insignificant exterior.
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