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        The Old Wives' Tale


        setting

        Surrey County, England; Paris

        time

        Late 1800s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1908

        page count

        565

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Baines Sisters, Sophia, Constance

        Rip's impressions

        A candidate for selective skipping. This book is about England and Paris at the time of the Paris commune uprising in 1871.

        first line

        Those two girls, Constance and Sophia Baines, paid no need to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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