The old wives' tale /
Arnold Bennett ; introduction by Anita Miller.
- Academy Chicago ltd. ed.
- Chicago : Academy Chicago, 1980.
- 612 p ; 22 cm.
"Pandora books.". Reprint of the 1911 ed. published by G. H. Doran, New York.
A 1908 novel that presents a portrait of English provincial life through the story of two sisters, Constance, who marries her father's chief assistant and remains at home her entire life, and Sophia, who elopes to Paris with an irresistible, unscrupulous traveller.