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To quickly link to a Bates book for more details, use the list below:
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"That's not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H.E. Bates novels I've read."
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"One of the most vividly evocative writers of English ... able to conjure up in a handful of words whole
landscapes and moods."
Listener
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"... He was always at his best in the country landscape of his childhood where the hours seemed fuller and longer."
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"He was without an equal in England in the kind of story he made his own."
The Times
"H.E. Bates can achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few contemporary novelists can match."
Times Literary Supplement
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"After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates and V.S. Pritchett as he best short-story writers
of my time."
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