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The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett

The Old Wives' Tale

  • Claudia Rondón Bohórquezhas quoted7 years ago
    is an absolute rule that the principal character of a novel must not be unsympathetic, and the whole modern tendency of realistic fiction is against oddness in a pro
  • Claudia Rondón Bohórquezhas quoted7 years ago
    youthfulness, the unfading youthfulness of the average heroine. And as a protest against this fashion, I was already, in 1903, planning a novel ("Leonora") of which the heroine was aged forty, and had daughters old enough to be in love.
  • Claudia Rondón Bohórquezhas quoted7 years ago
    had always revolted against the absurd
  • olgamchas quoted8 years ago
    he had known that geography had always made history
  • olgamchas quoted8 years ago
    an active reality that went about the world playing
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