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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
Notable works. Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, My Uncle Silas, Fair Stood the Wind for France. 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.
My Uncle Silas: With Albert Finney, Sue Johnston, Joe Prospero, Julian Holloway. Five stories by H.E. Bates about a roguish English countryman.
- (166)
- 2001-11-26
- Comedy, Drama, Family
- 140
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.
- (161)
- Ebook
HE Bates was a great storyteller, and a beautiful writer. So I'll pick My Uncle Silas as my book of a lifetime. I don't write like Bates, and have never wished that I could be him in the same...
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.
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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 ...
