Love for Lydia

Love for Lydia PDF Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A chronicle of the love affairs of a beautiful but wayward upper-class English girl in a skating community in the English countryside.

Love for Lydia

Love for Lydia PDF Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A chronicle of the love affairs of a beautiful but wayward upper-class English girl in a skating community in the English countryside.

Through the Woods

Through the Woods PDF Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher: Nature Classics Library
ISBN: 9781908213020
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Bates describes a single woodland year in this enchanting book.

FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE

FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE PDF Author: H. E. BATES
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party PDF Author: H.E. Bates
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448215277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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The Wedding Party, first published in 1965 (Michael Joseph), is a collection of short stories evoking both the dark and light, and the comedy and tragedy in human nature. Bates employs a deceptive delicateness of touch in his descriptions and character sketches, here mastering the true essentials of the art of the short story; he says much by saying little, what is left out more poignant than the words on the page. With a host of larger than life characters, we meet the scheming and eccentric Aunt Leonora, who fibs her way through the comic tale 'The Picnic'. The collection also unites two loveable rogues Captain Poopdeck and Uncle Silas, and brings us the farcical tale 'Early One Morning' which provide a sharp contrast with the sombre and haunting tones of pieces like 'The Primrose Place' and 'The Winter Sound', and the lyrical but bitter episode of 'The Wedding Party' itself.

Best of H. E. Bates

Best of H. E. Bates PDF Author: H. E. Bates
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974301393
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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The earliest of these stories, The Flame, was first published in 1926, having been written a year earlier, when I was twenty; the latest appeared in 1961. The intervening thirty-five years, together with the thirty-five stories I have chosen from that period, therefore give this collection its title, Seven by Five. My aim has been to make the book as widely representative of my work as a short story writer as possible, but I have nevertheless refrained from including any of the war-time stories I wrote under the pseudonym of 'Flying Officer X', any of the stories of Uncle Silas and any novellas, since these all belong, in my view, to quite separate categories. *The title of the British edition.

A Breath of French Air

A Breath of French Air PDF Author: H. E. Bates
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Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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The Darling Buds of May

The Darling Buds of May PDF Author: H. E. Bates
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780140139341
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Short comic novel about an unconventional English farmer and his attempts to snare a husband for his daughter.

A Month by the Lake & Other Stories

A Month by the Lake & Other Stories PDF Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's," Graham Greene declared, "I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that the Russian was the finer artist." The sampler of H. E. Bates stories presented here shows the merit of that praise and displays the range and aspects of Bates's work from his first published story, "The Flame," to one of his very last, "The Song of the Wren." In his long and prolific literary career, Bates (1905-1974) produced twenty-five novels, a three-volume autobiography, nine books of essays, several plays and children's books, as well as his important and perhaps most enduring achievement, twenty-three collections of short stories. A Month by the Lake & Other Stories displays Bates's extraordinary talent for concisely getting at the heart of the matter. Whether he is dealing with romance in middle age (the title story), or the almost painful clarity of a child's world ("The Cowslip Field"), or encapsulating the disintegration and tragedy of a man and a house and the era and class they represent ("The Flag")-Bates's compassion for humanity remains constant. As Anthony Burgess remarks in his introduction, Bates "achieved such sovereignty of what literary land he inherited that he deserves the homage of our uncomplicated enjoyment... Bates's affection for ordinary people is one of his shining virtues. But he himself, as I knew, and as this compilation should make clear, was, is, far from ordinary." Book jacket.

Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories

Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories PDF Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates will welcome this third collection. Gathered here are twenty stories written between 1938 and 1964 which are gems of human observation.

When the Green Woods Laugh

When the Green Woods Laugh PDF Author: H. E. Bates
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141938668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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'There!' Pop said. 'There's the house. There's Gore Court for you. What about that, eh? How's that strike you? Better than St Paul's, ain't it, better than St Paul's?' And so Pop Larkin - junk-dealer, family man and Dragon's Blood connoisseur - manages to sell the nearby crumbling, tumbling country home to city dwellers Mr and Mrs Jerebohm for a pretty bundle of notes. Now he can build his daughter Mariette the pool she's long been nagging him for. But the Larkin's new neighbours aren't quite so accepting of country ways - especially Pop's little eccentricities. In fact, it's not long before a wobbly boat, a misplaced pair of hands and Mrs Jerebohm's behind have Pop up before a magistrate . . .