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Bates, H.E.

The Nature of Love : Three Short Novels

Michael Joseph, 1953

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Year of publication
1953
Place of printing
London
Author
Bates, H.E.
Publishers
Michael Joseph
Edition
1st UK Edition
Keyword
FICTION SHORT STORIES
Cover description
Good,Slight Chips & Tears
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

This his first published collection of novellas con contains three stories [1] Dulcima, dedicated to W. Somerset Maugham, is a tale of a simple girl in rural England whose manipulation of both an old widower and a young forest worker has tragic results.[2] The Grass God is a literary portrait of Fitzgerald, a landowner who is unfeeling in the treatment of his tenants and his wife, who, whilst bumbling through a summer affair with a young beauty, gets a taste of his own medicine.[3] The Delicate Nature follows a young man to the Malaysian jungle to assist a plantation owner, but enters into an affair with his wife.240p.End papers slightly tanned, minor wear at head and foot of spine.