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Author : Arnold Bennett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book written by Angela Carter and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world." -- From the Introduction There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology. Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers.
Author : George Peele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021794123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale; a Play written by George Peele and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Shapcott
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ISBN 13 : 9780953720279
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book The old wives' tale written by John Shapcott and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679641173
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time '[Arnold Bennett's] superb Old Wives' Tale, wandering from person to person and from scene to scene, is by far the finest 'long novel' that has been written in English and in the English fashion, in this generation.' --H. G. Wells First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of Staffordshire to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris, while the action moves from the subdued domestic routine of the Baines household to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. 'Like Wordsworth, [Arnold Bennett] has triumphed over the habitual; he has not let it disguise the particle of beauty from him.'--Rebecca West
Author : Arnold Bennett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Peele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives Tale, 1595 written by George Peele and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781543065107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale (1908) by written by Arnold Bennett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. Bennett was initially inspired to write the book by a chance encounter in a Parisian restaurant. In the introduction to the book, he says ...an old woman came into the restaurant to dine. She was fat, shapeless, ugly, and grotesque. She had a ridiculous voice, and ridiculous gestures. It was easy to see that she lived alone, and that in the long lapse of years she had developed the kind of peculiarity which induces guffaws among the thoughtless.
Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266324799
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives Tale (Classic Reprint) written by Arnold Bennett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Wives Tale It was at this instant that I was visited by the idea of writing the book which ultimately became The Old Wives' Tale. Of course I felt that the woman who caused the ignoble mirth in the restaurant would not serve me as a type of heroine. For she was much too old and obviously unsympathetic. It is an absolute rule that the principal character of a novel must not be unsympathetic, and the whole modern tendency of realistic fiction is against oddness in a prominent figure. I knew that I must choose the sort of woman who would pass unnoticed in a crowd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Peele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale written by George Peele and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
