The Old Wives’ Tale
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- 541
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Preface
11:37 -
Bk 1 Mrs. Baines Ch 1 The Square
49:37 -
Bk 1 Ch 2 The Tooth
25:19 -
Bk1 Ch 3 A Battle Pt 1
41:02 -
Bk1 Ch 3 A Battle Pt 2
38:40 -
Bk 1 Ch 4 Elephant
41:57 -
Bk 1 Ch 5 The Traveller
45:11 -
Bk 1 Ch 6 Escapade
42:49 -
Bk 1 Ch 7 A Defeat
34:00 -
Bk 2 Constance Ch 1 Revolution
44:35 -
Bk2 Ch 2 Christmas and the Future
39:31 -
Bk 2 Ch 3 Cyril
47:01 -
Bk 2 Ch 4 Crime
43:07 -
Bk 2 Ch 5 Another Crime Pt 1
36:29 -
Bk 2 Ch 5 Another Crime Pt 2
43:00 -
Bk 2 Ch 6 The Widow
28:11 -
Bk 2 Ch 7 Bricks and Mortar
32:04 -
Bk 2 Ch 8 The Proudest Mother
25:57 -
Bk 3 Sophia Ch 1 The Elopement
29:43 -
Bk 3 Ch 2 Supper
37:11 -
Bk 3 Ch 3 An Ambition Satisfied
44:47 -
Bk 3 Ch 4 A Crisis for Gerald
46:29 -
Bk 3 Ch 5 Fever Pt 1
57:30 -
Bk 3 Ch 5 Fever Pt 2
27:08 -
Bk 3 Ch 6 The Siege
63:41 -
Bk 3 Ch 7 Success
44:15 -
BBk 4 What Life is Ch 1 Frensham's Pt 1
33:52 -
Bk 4 Ch 1 Frensham's Pt 2
43:00 -
Bk 4 Ch 2 The Meeting
62:37 -
Bk 4 Ch 3 Towards Hotel Life Pt 1
48:47 -
Bk 4 Ch 3 Towards Hotel Life Pt 2
47:31 -
Bk 4 Ch 4 End of Sophia Pt 1
38:01 -
Bk 4 Ch 4 End of Sophia Pt 2
42:40 -
Bk 4 Ch 5 End of Constance
61:14
The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) is a public domain work.
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The Old Wives' Tale is Arnold Bennett's masterpiece, published in 1908, a sweeping and deeply human novel that follows two sisters across the whole of their lives. Constance and Sophia Baines grow up above their mother's draper's shop in the industrial Potteries of Staffordshire, and the book traces how one stays to lead a quiet provincial life while the other elopes to Paris and is caught up in war and hardship. Bennett's great theme is time itself, the slow and unstoppable way it turns lively young girls into old women, and he tells it with such patience and truth that the ordinary becomes profoundly moving. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.
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Book facts
- Author
- Arnold Bennett
- Pages
- 541
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Domestic Fiction
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Andy Minter (1934-2017)