The Best of H.E.Bates

Michael Josepn, 1980, hardcover, 634 pages, condition : very good.

Appearing in 1980, this was a selection of novels and short stories from Batess work published posthumously, and it contains: Fair Stood the Wind for France, The Purple Plain, The Darling Buds of May, The Triple Echo, The Four Beauties, The Simple Life, The Major of Hussars, The Bedfordshire Clanger, The Wild Cherry Tree, The Little Farm, Great Uncle Crow.

Herbert Ernest Bates CBE, better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer, known for his gritty realistic short stories and novels set in the early to mid 20th century of England mainly. He was from the countryside and adored flowers and gardening, so much of his writing is informed by this.