Arnold Bennett

Broschiertes Buch

The Old Wives Tale

Beschreibung

Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work 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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 167mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780141442112
• ISBN-10: 0141442115
• Artikelnr.: 22846756