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My Uncle Silas is a book of short stories about a bucolic elderly Bedfordshire man, written by H. E. Bates and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
- H. E. Bates
- 1939
A prolific and successful author, his greatest success was posthumous, with the television adaptations of his stories The Darling Buds of May and its sequels as well as adaptations of My Uncle Silas, A Moment in Time, Fair Stood the Wind for France and Love for Lydia.
My Uncle Silas: With Albert Finney, Sue Johnston, Joe Prospero, Julian Holloway. Five stories by H.E. Bates about a roguish English countryman.
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- 2001-11-26
- Comedy, Drama, Family
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My Uncle Silas. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939 (October 27). 192 pp. Drawings by Edward Ardizzone. In the preface (attached), Bates says that the character of Silas as well as a number of the stories are firmly based on real events in the life of Joseph Betts, "late husband of my maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann." Betts is described at ...
Bates wasn't a West Country man, but the world as he saw it and the people that he wrote about were very recognisable to me.
First published in 1939, My Uncle Silas is a collection of 14 short stories about the rural reprobate of the title. These very short stories were originally published individually in magazine form in approximately the 5 years preceding their inclusion in the collection.
MY UNCLE SILAS. by H. E. Bates ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 10, 1984. Published in England in 1939, but never before in the US, these 14 small tales offer sly, affectionate glimpses of the narrator's great-uncle Silas--a rural oldster of the earthy, boozy, incorrigible school.
