Old Wives' Tale

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The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by a famous English writer Enoch Arnold Bennet, that describes lives of the Baines sisters and people who surround them. But the writer is more interested in how their lives are influenced by changes in the society development, when an old society is changed by "new people" textile and metal manufacturers. By the way, the author does not criticize or express his negative opinion towards conservative, limited and behind their times characters. He considers them to be "the sweet flowers that were left from previous times".

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