The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)

ISBN: 9780140182552

出版社: Penguin Classics

出版年: 1991-01-02

定价: USD 15.00

装帧: Paperback

原作名: 炉边谈

内容简介

The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives as it tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days. They move from the family drapery shop in provincial Bursley during

the repressive mid-Victorian period to old age in the modern era of mass marketing and the internal combustion engine. The setting ranges from the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Bursley to a Paris brothel, the action from the controlled domestic routine of the Baines household to wife murder and the

Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1.

This edition of The Old Wives' Tale gives fascinating critical insights into Bennett's most wide-ranging novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece.