#h.e. bates

[josephinthepast]

"As she disappeared Pop reminded the Brigadier of how he had said Miss Pilchester was a splendid organizer and all that.

The Brigadier was more than kind: 'Well, in her own sweet way I suppose she is. Fact is, I suppose, she's the only one who can spare the time. Nobody else has the time.'

That was it. Nobody had the time. In the crushing, rushing pressure of modern life nobody, even in the country, had the time."

H.E. Bates, The Darling Buds of May (1958)

[fivebroken]

Found a complete DVD set of The Darling Buds Of May at an antique mall for $8 hehe

[thatsbutterbaby]

Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980) - Illustration for Down The River by H.E. Bates

beautiful scans here https://derrickjknight.com/tag/agnes-miller-parker/

[red-ibis-red]

"That was a great storm," he said. "I've never known a storm like that."'

"No," she said. "It was a great storm.”

As she spoke she turned to look at him, for the first time directly, with large black eyes. A sudden burst of wind blew her hair free of her face, leaving it fully exposed.

—H.E. Bates, “The White Wind”, A Party for the Girls: Six Stories

[red-ibis-red]

He escaped, spent five minutes in an empty back corridor breathing on his spectacles, polishing them and then in sheer fright breathing on them again. After that he worked his way to the corner of the bar and restored himself with a whisky, saying desperately at the last moment: “No, a large one, large one please.”

—H.E.Bates, “Death of a Huntsman”, A Party for the Girls: Six Stories

[spectaculardistractions]

One or two films allow doubts, assert some sort of counter ideal. The Cruel Sea is followed by Robert Parrish's version of H.E. Bates's The Purple Plain (1954). Its American director bestows on regulation stoicism a new key, of Technicolor physicality, and the soft full female warmth and strength of Burmese actress Win Min Than. Indeed the film, with its British producer and script and American director and star (Gregory Peck), is a subtle compromise between British and American codes. Quietly but firmly un-English is its vindication of individualism within the system. The crashed aviator who survives the Burma jungle is unsociable and undisciplined, breaks most of the rules and keeps going not by sheer plod but by fixing his mind, in extremis, on a jewel (never mind that it turns out to be a fake - for the real jewel is his life-force, longing for a woman, using any sort of pretext to assert itself, and drive him on). The American's English companion (Maurice Denham) is a stickler for regulations, as well as querulous and afraid. He dies early.

Raymond Durgnat, A Mirror for England

[htvpakistan]

 Discuss the role of the point of view in “The Woman Who Had Imagination” by H.E. Bates. 

Point of View Definition Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told; the narrator’s position in relation to the story. In short fiction, who tells the story and how it is told are critical issues for an author to decide. The tone and feel of the story, and even its meaning, can change radically depending on who is telling the story. Remember, someone is always between the reader…

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[htvpakistan]

Critical Analysis of the short story "The Woman Who Had Imagination” by H.E. Bates

Critical Analysis of the short story “The Woman Who Had Imagination” by H.E. Bates

Critical Analysis A village choir travels to a country estate for a music festival, where the young son of the choir director is drawn to a resident of the estate, a mesmerizing and mysterious young woman. Only on the return trip does he learn that she is married to the aged don of the house; as one choir member exclaims, “it needed a bit of imagination to marry that old co…….” The many details…

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