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How Sleep the Brave
Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X'
Av H.E. Bates
Häftad, 2002
179 kr
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Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May'After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one of the best short-story writers of my time' Graham GreeneFirst published under the pseudonym of …
Day's End and Other Stories
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2015
179 kr
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Day's End and Other Stories, H. E. Bates's first short story collection published in 1928 when he was just 23, depicts the rural lives of quirky characters cast in his distinctive, beautifully drawn style. Each story has a youthful quality, intimate and often profound, perfectly demonstrating the …
Seven Tales and Alexander
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2015
88 kr
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Seven Tales and Alexander beautifully captures a spectrum of emotions from innocent childhood and early adolescence, to those of simple-hearted and uninquiring old age. On its original release in 1929 (The Scholartis Press), The New Statesman observed that Bates has ''by seeing with a child''s …
Black Boxer Tales
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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The Black Boxer Tales, first published in 1932, H. E. Bates's third collection displays a growing emphasis on plot and characterisation, while amply displaying his established skill at creating plotless atmospheric pieces. Several stories explore a sense of a new and changing world of carnivals, …
Woman Who Had Imagination
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2015
88 kr
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The Woman Who Had Imagination , H.E. Bates''s fourth volume of stories, first published in 1934 (Jonathan Cape), is a fascinating collection of contrasts. The stories combine elements of realism and poetry, beauty and ugliness, tenderness and irony. Graham Greene, writing in the Spectator , lauded …
Cut and Come Again
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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H.E. Bates's fifth collection is a sparkling body of work full of stories of childhood. Geoffrey West observed the collection overall as "bright with life, with individuals alive and interacting, and with the sweeping beauties of broad country backgrounds."Often cited as one of Bates's best …
Something Short and Sweet
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
86 kr
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Something Short and Sweet , H. E. Bates''s sixth collection first published in 1937, demonstrates his mastery of character and form. Richard Church, writing in John O''London''s Weekly, stated that this collection confirmed his belief that Bates "is an immortal...Here is a creative artist whose …
Flying Goat
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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The Flying Goat (Jonathan Cape, 1939) features sixteen diverse stories from slapstick sketches to portraits of marital tension; one Uncle Silas tale; and three that hark back to Bates''s boyhood roots. ''A Funny Thing'' is an escalating bragging match between Uncle Silas and Uncle Cosmos. Cosmos is …
Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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The Beauty of the Dead (Jonathan Cape, 1940) featuring fifteen stories, was released to critical acclaim. Pamela Hansford Johnson wrote in John O''London''s Weekly that "all have that delicate luminosity by which visions are seen more clearly than in the bright sunlight." ''Old'' is a snapshot of …
Bride Comes to Evensford
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
44 kr
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The Bride Comes to Evensford , a novella first published in 1943, follows a woman from her arrival in a small town (modelled on Bates''s native Rushden) to her work for a draper, her marriage to him, her increasing command over the business and the household, and finally to her infatuation with a …
Nature of Love
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
86 kr
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The Nature of Love (Michael Joseph, 1953) was Bates''s first published collection of novellas. It contains three stories, different in weight but similar in texture, drawing from rural landscapes and the sensitive, poignant studies of the people that bring them to life. Dulcima , dedicated to W. …
Daffodil Sky
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2015
88 kr
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The Daffodil Sky, first published in 1955 (Michael Joseph), mixes eclectic characters travelling to foreign lands with poetic treatments of rural life in Bates's Northamptonshire. 'A Place in the Heart' is set in Asia against a colourful backdrop of rickshaws and ceremonial drumming. An Englishman, …
Death of a Huntsman
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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In his second collection of novellas, first published in 1957, Bates tackles bitter romantic deceptions and love triangles in what the Times Literary Supplement calls 'Mr Bates at his best.'In 'Night Run to the West' a greedy wife plots the death of her invalid husband, as seen through the eyes of …
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Other Stories
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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First published in 1961, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Other Stories is a collection full of light and shade, setting sensitive character studies against Bates's signature vibrant, delicate imagery. A fussy and obsessive golfer encounters a troubled young woman at a wind-swept beach in 'Lost …
Golden Oriole
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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In this collection of five novellas, Bates contrasts two comic stories with the atmospheric title story, and includes a complex psychological tale alongside the romantically bleak. ''The Golden Oriole'' features a fragile and troubled woman, frozen in a stultifying and unconsummated marriage, who …
Fabulous Mrs. V.
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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First published in 1964, The Fabulous Mrs. V. is a late collection of twelve stories celebrating comedy and Bates''s ability to paint amusing, idiosyncratic women. ''A Couple of Fools'' follows two fashionable young women, ripe for a luxurious Sunday afternoon outing, who find that their flamboyant …
Wedding Party
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2015
88 kr
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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 …
Song of the Wren
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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Published in 1972, The Song of the Wren contains some light entertainments in the style of the Uncle Silas tales, alongside some more serious stories concerning thwarted love, love triangles, and, in two of the cases, the violence that comes out of psyches twisted by love. 'The Song of the Wren' …
Yellow Meads of Asphodel
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
86 kr
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Published posthumously in 1976, these stories include some familiar characters and scenarios, as well as an uncharacteristic vignette portraying urban hooligans.The title story, 'The Yellow Meads of Asphodel', looks at the apparently stagnant lives of a brother and sister, both in their forties, …
Complete Uncle Silas Stories
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
103 kr
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Bates''s famous loveable rogue, Uncle Silas, has a unique range of work to his name. For the first time, all of these stories are gathered together in one collection, allowing readers to experience Silas from multiple perspectives. Some tales offer sly, affectionate glimpses of the narrator''s …
Aspidistra in Babylon
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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First published in 1960, this collection of four novellas continue Bates''s sensitive, often witty, explorations of unhappy love. The title story, ''An Aspidistra in Babylon'', is a reminiscence of a girl''s loss of innocence. Christine, who describes herself at eighteen as ''dull as one of the …
Day of the Tortoise
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
88 kr
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The Day of the Tortoise , a novella published in 1961, is a touching tale of a brief interlude of pleasure in the stale existence of Fred Tomlinson, a man nearing his sixties. A bachelor, Fred shops, cleans, cooks, and otherwise indulges the eccentric demands of his three spinster sisters until a …
Cruise of The Breadwinner
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2015
44 kr
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The Cruise of the Breadwinner is an adventure at sea, following Snowy as he comes of age through a shower of sea-spray and bullets. The youngest crew member on a coastal patrol boat, he longs for action as his sharp eyes pick out distant plane battles and his ears strain to the sound of faint …
Day's End and Other Stories
Av H.E. Bates
Häftad, 2015
219 kr
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Day’s End and Other Stories, H. E. Bates’s first short story collection published in 1928 when he was just 23, depicts the rural lives of quirky characters cast in his distinctive, beautifully drawn style.Each story has a youthful quality, intimate and often profound, perfectly demonstrating the …
Love for Lydia
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
99 kr
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''An honest and skillfully told love story'' - New York Times Lydia - shy, sheltered, beautiful and just nineteen - glides into Evensford one wintry day, stirring up feeling amongst the town''s young men. But it is the young Mr Richardson that she befriends. As winter turns to drowsy summer, his …
Watercress Girl
Av H.E. Bates
Häftad, 2016
219 kr
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Stories about children are not always for children. In The Watercress Girl, H. E. Bates masterfully depicts a childhood which, by proxy, reveals the mystifying world of the adult. Through a series of short, lyrical stories, the complexities of the world are seen with crystalline purity through the …
Triple Echo
Av H.E. Bates
E-bok, 2016
44 kr
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In the 1940s, the wife of a war prisoner lives in desperate loneliness and fear on an isolated farmstead. She encounters a young farmboy completely out of his element as a soldier, and the two carve out a relationship in defiance of the war around them. His decision to escape the military and to …
Complete Flying Officer X Stories
Av H.E. Bates
Häftad, 2018
252 kr
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At thirty-four, H.E. Bates was deemed too old for active service in WWII. But as a successful author, was commissioned by the nascent RAP Public Relations unit to publicise the bravery of the fighter pilots. Bates was posted to Oakington and Tangmere air bases where, over drinks with the pilots, he …
Love for Lydia
Av H.E Bates
Häftad, 2008
173 kr
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Lydia Aspen, a seemingly shy girl from a wealthy but isolated background, is encouraged by her aunts, her new carers, to discover the delights of growing up. They entrust her education to Mr Richardson, the young apprentice for Evenford's local newspaper, who is sent to their house to 'get a story' …
Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree and Other Stories
Revived Modern Classic
Av H.E. Bates
Inbunden, 1989
180 kr
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