«The Old Wives' Tale» in inglese
The Old Wives' Tale
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✒ Autore | Arnold Bennett |
📖 Pagine | 1186 |
⏰ Tempo di lettura | 36 ore 45 minuti |
💡 Pubblicato | 1908 |
🌏 Lingua originale | Inglese |
📌 Tipo | Romanzi |
Indice del libro
Espandi
BOOK I MRS. BAINES | 1 |
CHAPTER I | 1 |
I | 1 |
II | 11 |
III | 33 |
CHAPTER II | 43 |
I | 44 |
II | 51 |
III | 57 |
CHAPTER III | 65 |
I | 66 |
II | 79 |
III | 88 |
IV | 99 |
V | 114 |
CHAPTER IV | 131 |
I | 132 |
II | 142 |
III | 149 |
IV | 157 |
CHAPTER V | 167 |
I | 168 |
II | 178 |
III | 189 |
IV | 199 |
CHAPTER VI | 207 |
I | 208 |
II | 214 |
III | 222 |
IV | 236 |
CHAPTER VII | 243 |
I | 244 |
II | 252 |
III | 264 |
BOOK II CONSTANCE | 274 |
CHAPTER I | 274 |
I | 275 |
II | 286 |
III | 293 |
IV | 303 |
CHAPTER II | 313 |
I | 314 |
II | 323 |
III | 331 |
IV | 336 |
CHAPTER III | 348 |
I | 349 |
II | 370 |
CHAPTER IV | 390 |
I | 391 |
II | 405 |
III | 412 |
CHAPTER V | 429 |
I | 430 |
II | 447 |
III | 460 |
IV | 476 |
VI | 492 |
CHAPTER VI | 498 |
I | 499 |
II | 511 |
III | 518 |
CHAPTER VII | 524 |
I | 525 |
II | 537 |
III | 546 |
CHAPTER VIII | 552 |
I | 553 |
II | 563 |
III | 569 |
BOOK III SOPHIA | 575 |
CHAPTER I | 575 |
I | 576 |
II | 595 |
CHAPTER II | 601 |
I | 602 |
II | 609 |
CHAPTER III | 633 |
I | 634 |
II | 641 |
III | 649 |
IV | 658 |
CHAPTER IV | 671 |
I | 672 |
II | 686 |
III | 694 |
IV | 699 |
V | 708 |
CHAPTER V | 711 |
I | 712 |
II | 720 |
III | 733 |
IV | 758 |
V | 770 |
CHAPTER VI | 780 |
I | 781 |
II | 792 |
III | 814 |
IV | 820 |
V | 829 |
CHAPTER VII | 835 |
I | 836 |
II | 849 |
III | 861 |
BOOK IV WHAT LIFE IS | 873 |
CHAPTER I | 873 |
I | 874 |
II | 896 |
III | 901 |
IV | 912 |
V | 923 |
CHAPTER II | 936 |
I | 937 |
II | 950 |
III | 975 |
CHAPTER III | 987 |
I | 988 |
II | 1003 |
III | 1021 |
IV | 1028 |
V | 1037 |
VI | 1043 |
CHAPTER IV | 1067 |
I | 1068 |
II | 1082 |
III | 1100 |
IV | 1117 |
CHAPTER V | 1134 |
I | 1135 |
II | 1150 |
III | 1156 |
IV | 1167 |
V | 1175 |
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BOOK I MRS. BAINES
CHAPTER I
THE SQUARE
I
Those two girls, Constance and Sophia Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious.
They were, for example, established almost precisely on the fifty-third parallel of latitude.
A little way to the north of them, in the creases of a hill famous for its religious orgies, rose the river Trent, the calm and characteristic stream of middle England.
Somewhat further northwards, in the near neighbourhood of the highest public-house in the realm, rose two lesser rivers, the Dane and the Dove, which, quarrelling in early infancy, turned their backs on each other, and, the one by favour of the Weaver and the other by favour of the Trent, watered between them the whole width of England, and poured themselves respectively into the Irish Sea and the German Ocean.
What a county of modest, unnoticed rivers!
What a natural, simple county, content to fix its boundaries by these tortuous island brooks, with their comfortable names — Trent, Mease, Dove, Tern, Dane, Mees, Stour, Tame, and even hasty Severn!
Not that the Severn is suitable to the county!
In the county excess is deprecated.
The county is happy in not exciting remark.
It is content that Shropshire should possess that swollen bump, the Wrekin, and that the exaggerated wildness of the Peak should lie over its border.
It does not desire to be a pancake like Cheshire.
It has everything that England has, including thirty miles of Watling Street; and England can show nothing more beautiful and nothing uglier than the works of nature and the works of man to be seen within the limits of the county.
It is England in little, lost in the midst of England, unsung by searchers after the extreme; perhaps occasionally somewhat sore at this neglect, but how proud in the instinctive cognizance of its representative features and traits!
Constance and Sophia, busy with the intense preoccupations of youth, recked not of such matters.
They were surrounded by the county.
On every side the fields and moors of Staffordshire, intersected by roads and lanes, railways, watercourses and telegraph-lines, patterned by hedges, ornamented and made respectable by halls and genteel parks, enlivened by villages at the intersections, and warmly surveyed by the sun, spread out undulating.
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