The Old Wives' Tale

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Jean Béraud, Gustave Doré and Charles Meryon. Two sisters in a Staffordshire draper's shop: one stays her whole life, one runs off to Paris and lives through the siege. Bennett got the idea watching an old woman in a Paris restaurant and set out to write the finest novel in English; a good many readers think he managed it. This edition binds 57 ...