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H.E. Bates

An Autobiography

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

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H.E. Bates

An Autobiography

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

Combining Bates' three autobiographies, 'The Vanished World', 'The Blossoming World' and 'The World in Ripeness', this volume is a tribute to one of the most prolific and popular of English writers.

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Methuen Publishing

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041377600X

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9780413776006

A Month by the Lake & Other Stories

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

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A Month by the Lake & Other Stories

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

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.

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228

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210367

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9780811210362

Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

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Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

20 stories reflect vintage Bates.

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236

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210871

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9780811210874

A Party for the Girls

Six Stories

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

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A Party for the Girls

Six Stories

By: Herbert Ernest Bates

The six long stories of A Party for the Girls present H.E. Bates at his finest. A crack shot at understated tragedy, Bates is perhaps at his best with comedy and character--consider the opening line of the title story: "Miss Tompkins, who was seventy-six, bright pink-looking in a bath-salts sort of way and full of an alert but dithering energy, looked out the drawing-room window for the twentieth time since breakfast and found herself growing increasingly excited." Though virtually unknown here, as Publishers Weekly put it in their review of Bates's A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987), his nearly perfect stories...should set his readers clamoring for more... He is as adept at the seductive rise and fall of his narrative voice as he is cunning with naturalistic dialogue. Comparisons to Joyce, Chekhov, and Mansfield are inevitable.

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272

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210502

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9780811210508

Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call

A Record, 1790-2010, 2d ed.

By: Herbert Ford

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Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call

A Record, 1790-2010, 2d ed.

By: Herbert Ford

Pitcairn Island is arguably the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth. Yet despite tricky ocean currents, often lethal surf and sudden gales, the island's standing as the home of the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his mutineer cohorts from H.M.S. Bounty has drawn thousands of ships to its shores. This maritime history of the island chronicles every ship that has called at Pitcairn from the time of the arrival of the mutineers in 1790 to December 2010. The ship's log format lists the date of each call, the ship's name and particulars, and brief reports of activities during the call, which often include matters of love, murder, survival, intrigue, shipwreck, romance, and much more. Since Pitcairn remains totally dependent on ships for its survival, this work offers the most thorough historical record of the island and its people.

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372

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McFarland

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0786488220

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9780786488223

Book's by Herbert Ernest Bates

H.E. Bates

H.E. Bates

A Month by the Lake & Other Stories

A Month by the Lake & Other Stories

Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories

Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories

A Party for the Girls

A Party for the Girls

Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call

Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call

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