Vintage book Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition VOL 4103 The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett in 2 volumes VOL buy 2

"No English novelist ever suggested more unspeakable things, and got away without being understood, than me in that book,” wrote Arnold Bennett to a friend after The Old Wives' Tale was published in 1908. The novel received almost universal critical acclaim – so much so that Bennett is alleged to have responded: “I don't read my reviews, I measure them.”* the guardian

A brilliantly vivid description of provincial life in victorian England, The old wives' tale is the best known of Bennett's "five town" novels. It is also the touching account of two very different sisters, and the power of love of the vicissitudes of life.*googlebooks

One of the first saucy books, Arnold Bennett was extremely adept at the double entendre!

This book is of unknown date, but judging from the cover it is early-mid 1900s with first publishing being in 1908, the spine has some wear as does the cover at the edges. The interior is in good shape.

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