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The Old Wives' Tale
It follows two sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, from their youth working in their mother's draper's shop through old age.
"The Old Wives' Tale" by Arnold Bennett is a novel. It follows two sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, from their youth working in their mother's draper's shop through old age.
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They pressed their noses against the window of the show-room, and gazed down into the Square as perpendicularly as the projecting front of the shop would allow. The show-room was over the millinery and silken half of the shop. Over the woollen and shirting half were the drawing-room and the chief bedroom. When in quest of articles of coquetry, you mounted from the shop by a curving stair, and your head gradually rose level with a large apartment having a mahogany counter in front of the window and along one side, yellow linoleum on the floor, many cardboard boxes, a magnificent hinged cheval glass, and two chairs. The window-sill being lower than the counter, there was a gulf between the panes and the back of the counter, into which important articles such as scissors, pencils, chalk, and artificial flowers were continually disappearing: another proof of the architect’s incompetence.
Contents
- 01Book I — Mrs. Baines
- 02Chapter I — the Square
- 03Chapter II — the Tooth
- 04Chapter III — a Battle
- 05Chapter IV — Elephant
- 06Chapter V — the Traveller
- 07Chapter VI — Escapade
- 08Chapter VII — a Defeat
- 09Book II — Constance
- 10Chapter I — Revolution
- 11Chapter II — Christmas and the Future
- 12Chapter III — Cyril
- 13Chapter IV — Crime
- 14Chapter V — Another Crime
- 15Chapter VI — the Widow
- 16Chapter VII — Bricks and Mortar
- 17Chapter VIII — the Proudest Mother
- 18Book III — Sophia
- 19Chapter I — the Elopement
- 20Chapter II — Supper
- 21Chapter III — an Ambition Satisfied
- 22Chapter IV — a Crisis for Gerald
- 23Chapter V — Fever
- 24Chapter VI — the Siege
- 25Chapter VII — Success
- 26Book IV — What Life Is
- 27Chapter I — Frensham’s
- 28Chapter II — the Meeting
- 29Chapter III — Towards Hotel Life
- 30Chapter IV — End of Sophia
- 31Chapter V — End of Constance
About this edition
- Author
- Arnold Bennett
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 737 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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