My Uncle Silas
Author: Bates, H.E.
ISBN: 9780099421979
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Sep 2001
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
A new edition of the famous stories first published in magazines in the 1930s
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 things: He boasted of the villains he had knocked to kingdom come as he boasted of the women whose hearts he had truly captured. Crotchety, vainglorious, occasionally wicked, he maintained a devilish spark of audacity which made him so attractive to everyone he met.
ISBN: 9780099421979
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Sep 2001
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
A new edition of the famous stories first published in magazines in the 1930s
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 things: He boasted of the villains he had knocked to kingdom come as he boasted of the women whose hearts he had truly captured. Crotchety, vainglorious, occasionally wicked, he maintained a devilish spark of audacity which made him so attractive to everyone he met.
