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A series of studies of a rural reprobate. Uncle Silas was a wencher, a liar, a poacher, a toper and at the same time he possessed a certain integrity, a rough charm.
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Uncle Silas, the rural reprobate, was popularized in H.E. Bates? magazine short stories. This complete collection is illustrated by Edward Ardizzonne?s original drawings ? perfectly capturing the little red-thatched house atop a violet-banked lane. Over the course of 95 years Uncle Silas led an active life, and loved to boast of his daring fights, and the women whose hearts he?d captured, over a glass of cowslip wine.
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Uncle Silas, the rural reprobate, was popularized in H.E. Bates? magazine short stories. This complete collection is illustrated by Edward Ardizzonne?s original drawings ? perfectly capturing the little red-thatched house atop a violet-banked lane. Over the course of 95 years Uncle Silas led an active life, and loved to boast of his daring fights, and the women whose hearts he?d captured, over a glass of cowslip wine.
H.E. Bates was born in Northamptonshire in 1905. He published his first novel, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. His most popular creation was the effervescent Larkin family about whom he wrote five novels including The Darling Buds of May. In 1973 he was awarded the CBE. He died in 1974.
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- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0851193781
- ISBN 13 9780851193786
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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