My Uncle Silas: From the author of The Darling Buds of May, the inspiration behind The Larkins - Softcover

Bates, H.E.

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9780099421979: My Uncle Silas: From the author of The Darling Buds of May, the inspiration behind The Larkins

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ISBN 10: 0099421976 ISBN 13: 9780099421979

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2001

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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.

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Book Description:

A new edition of the famous stories first published in magazines in the 1930s

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This collection brings together the deeds and misdeeds of Uncle Silas, the rural reprobate H. E. Bates made so popular in the stories published in various magazines throughout the 1930's. Accompanied by the original drawings by Edward Ardizzone this edition captures perfectly the atmosphere of the thatched houses along the violet-banked country lanes.

Over the course of ninety-five years Uncle Silas had an extraordinary life. Occasionally irritable and vainglorious, but always charming, he maintained a devilish spark of audacity making him so attractive to everyone he met.

Now a new generation may delight in the exploits of Uncle Silas and savour this deliciously robust tale of rural England.

My Uncle Silas is a YTV Co-Production with Excelsior and WGBH/Boston
Executive Producers - DAVID REYNOLDS, RICHARD BATES, PHILIP BURLEY
Director - PHILIP SAVILLE
Producer - PETER NORRIS
Screenplays by ROBERT BANKS STEWART, PETER TINNISWOOD

My Uncle Silas stars
Albert Finney,
Sue Johnson,
Annabelle Apsion,
Charlotte Rampling
and Lynda Bellingham
and introduces Joe Prospero as Edward

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