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- The_Old_Wives'_Tale abstract "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 is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris.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 todine. She was fat, shapeless, ugly, and grotesque. She had aridiculous voice, and ridiculous gestures. It was easy to see thatshe lived alone, and that in the long lapse of years she haddeveloped the kind of peculiarity which induces guffaws among thethoughtless.and I reflected, concerning the grotesque diner: "This woman was onceyoung, slim, perhaps beautiful; certainly free from theseridiculous mannerisms. Very probably she is unconscious of hersingularities. Her case is a tragedy. One ought to be able to makea heartrending novel out of the history of a woman such as she."Every stout, ageing woman is not grotesque—far from it!—butthere is an extreme pathos in the mere fact that every stoutageing woman was once a young girl with the unique charm of youthin her form and movements and in her mind. And the fact that thechange from the young girl to the stout ageing woman is made up ofan infinite number of infinitesimal changes, each unperceived byher, only intensifies the pathos.Bennett also found inspiration in Maupassant´s novel "Une Vie". [1]".
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- The_Old_Wives'_Tale author Arnold_Bennett.
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