H. E. Bates

The Darling Buds of May

Pastoral novel of a Kentish farming family's joys and sorrows

About the author

H. E. Bates
H. E. Bates

Bates was one of the most accomplished English short story writers of the twentieth century, whose tales of rural life and nature owe much to Chekhov and Lawrence. Fair Stood the Wind for France is his finest novel.

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