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Thirty One Selected Tales
First Published in 1947 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
This selection is intended to illustrate the range and full maturity of Mr H.E. Bates's art as a writer of short stories. Of one of the five volumes from which a choice has been made The Times expressed an opinion that may apply to them all and especially to the present book:
"His tales have, what current short story writing of the more literary type so often lacks, a real vitality, a kind of sunlit vivacity of phrase and icident, which gives brightness to stories even of relatively sombre themes... He can mingle comedy and emotion with a fine balance. He is alwasy sensitive, often tender, and has a fine detatchment in narrative and power of complete evocation in description."
Certainly this collection is representative in its variety and general level of accomplishment.
Contents:
- The Ox
- Chateau Bougainvillaea
- A German Idyll
- For The Dead
- Every Bullet Has Its Billet
- The Irishman
- Spring Snow
- Millenium Also Ran
- The Blind
- Elephant's Nest In A Rhubarb Tree
- The Dog and Mr Morency
- The Banjo
- Fuchsia
- The Man Who Loved Cats
- Mister Livingstone
- Something Short and Sweet
- I Am Not Myself
- The Wreath
- The Machine
- The Ship
- The Beauty of the Dead
- Mr Penfold
- The Bridge
- The Ferry
- The Loved One
- Time to Kill
- The Little Jeweller
- Love is not Love
- The Earth
- The White Pony
- No Country