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H. E. Bates. Herbert Ernest Bates CBE (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974) was a British writer, known for his gritty realistic short stories (he wrote more than 25 collections) and novels set in the early to mid 20th century of England mainly. He was from the countryside and adored flowers and gardening (writing two books on gardening), so much ...
4.04. 161ratings19reviews. In his preface to ‘My Uncle Silas’, Bates says that the character of Silas and a number of the stories in this volume are firmly based on real events in the life of Joseph Betts, husband of the author’s great aunt Mary Ann. Bates characterizes Silas as "the original Adam, rich and lusty and robust" and "a ...
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Bates's Uncle Silas figure, and many of the lineaments of his character, were based on a real person named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Bates's maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley, was born in the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s. The ...
I like stories, and well-written, thoughtful, intelligent stories are good enough for me. HE Bates was a great storyteller, and a beautiful writer. So I'll pick My Uncle Silas as my book of a ...
In 1933 H.E. wrote to Garnett to say he was sending a story about ‘a rakish uncle of mine, old devil, robust and warm and sinister, winning prizes for flowers and peas at the age of ninety’. The story was ' The Lily ' and was followed shortly after by ' The Wedding ', the most clearly autobiographical of all the Silas stories.
The deeds and misdeeds of Uncle Silas, the rural reprobate, were renowned in the short stories H E Bates published in the 1930s.In this collection the stories are presented in full, accompanied by the original drawings by Edward Ardizzone that perfectly capture the little reed-thatched house atop a violet-banked lane.Over the course of ninety-five years Uncle Silas found the time to do most ...
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The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories. All 29 Uncle Silas Tales collected for the first time in a single volume and published an an ebook. Contains: The Lily; The Revelation; The Wedding; Finger Wet, Finger Dry; A Funny Thing; The Sow and Silas; The Shooting Party; Silas the Good; A Happy Man; Silas & Goliath; A Silas Idyll; The Race; The Death ...
