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Author |
: H. E. Bates |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1088160573 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781088160572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fair Stood the Wind for France by : H. E. Bates
Fair Stood the Wind for France, first published in 1944, is author H. E. Bates' fictional account of a downed English bomber-pilot and his crew over occupied France during World War II. The men are taken in by a French family who hide them in their home. However, the pilot, injured during the plane's landing, must remain in France to heal, while his crew begin their journey back to friendly territory. The pilot falls in love with the home-owner's daughter, their relationship grows and eventually they travel together across France, seeking a way back to England. Fair Stood the Wind for France rises above the average romance, however. Set against the horrors of war, it takes on a life-affirming force, enhanced by the simple, yet elegant prose of the author. Bates also excels at evoking a sense of place; much of the story occurs over the course of a hot summer in rural France, and there are many beautiful descriptions of the French countryside as it bakes in the summer heat. In 1980, the book was the subject of a 4-part television mini-series by the BBC.
Author |
: W. Somerset Maugham |
Publisher |
: Standard Ebooks |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2023-01-01T20:46:22Z |
ISBN-10 |
: PKEY:3714F3CB8DC0897F |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7F Downloads) |
Synopsis Ashenden by : W. Somerset Maugham
During World War I W. Somerset Maugham, already by then an established playwright and author, was recruited to be a British intelligence agent. These stories reflect his wartime experiences in intelligence gathering. Though fictionalized, they managed to retain enough authentic elements for Winston Churchill to advise Maugham that their publication might be a violation of the Official Secrets Act, resulting in the author burning an additional 14 stories. Set in various locales across the continent, these remaining Ashenden stories are a precursor to the jet-setting spy novels of the 1950s and 1960s. Maugham is known as a master short story writer and these stories are no exception, combining wit and realism to create memorable characters in a unique and highly critical portrait of wartime espionage. Initially released to a mixed reception—with an early review by D. H. Lawrence being especially scathing—Ashenden has since been credited as an inspiration for numerous authors, including John Le Carré, Graham Greene, and Raymond Chandler. The latter in particular was especially impressed, writing in 1950, “There are no other great spy stories—none at all. I have been searching and I know.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author |
: H. E. Bates |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:224869210 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Breath of French Air by : H. E. Bates
Author |
: Herbert Ernest Bates |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811210502 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811210508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Party for the Girls by : Herbert Ernest Bates
The six long stories of A Party for the Girls present H.E. Bates at his finest. A crack shot at understated tragedy, Bates is perhaps at his best with comedy and character--consider the opening line of the title story: "Miss Tompkins, who was seventy-six, bright pink-looking in a bath-salts sort of way and full of an alert but dithering energy, looked out the drawing-room window for the twentieth time since breakfast and found herself growing increasingly excited." Though virtually unknown here, as Publishers Weekly put it in their review of Bates's A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987), his nearly perfect stories...should set his readers clamoring for more... He is as adept at the seductive rise and fall of his narrative voice as he is cunning with naturalistic dialogue. Comparisons to Joyce, Chekhov, and Mansfield are inevitable.
Author |
: Marguerite Henry |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2001-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780689845130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0689845138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis King of the Wind by : Marguerite Henry
Born in the stables of the Sultan of Morocco, an Arabian stallion named Sham is taken to England, along with the loyal yet mute Arab stable boy who tends to him, and becomes one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed.
Author |
: John Micklewright |
Publisher |
: Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2021-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800461277 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800461275 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Opening Country by : John Micklewright
In this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps – from the coast of Normandy to the flanks of Mont Blanc. The Opening Country is a beautifully written account of his progress through the French countryside, an evocative patchwork of landscape, nature, history, literature, film, and – drawing on his father’s diaries that stretch back to the 1930s – of memoir. Always curious, absorbing all around him, ready on a whim to divert from his chosen route as he heads unhurriedly southwards. The natural world unfolds as spring turns to summer with surprises of bird song and butterflies, against a constant background of reminders of the economic and social story of rural France and of wars past. The result is an engrossing record of a classic long-distance walk through Britain’s nearest continental neighbour. The Opening Country is a book to fire the imagination – a call to travel slowly, to open eyes and ears, to discover and explore.
Author |
: H. E. BATES |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1944 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE by : H. E. BATES
Author |
: Mary Wollstonecraft |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 1794 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435017640152 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by : Mary Wollstonecraft
Author |
: Fannie Flagg |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 2004-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345478634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345478630 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Standing in the Rainbow by : Fannie Flagg
Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers. The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."
Author |
: H. E. Bates |
Publisher |
: Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2019-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781839741142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1839741147 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fair Stood the Wind to France by : H. E. Bates
Fair Stood the Wind for France, first published in 1944, is author H. E. Bates' fictional account of a downed English bomber-pilot and his crew over occupied France during World War II. The men are taken in by a French family who hide them in their home. However, the pilot, injured during the plane's landing, must remain in France to heal, while his crew begin their journey back to friendly territory. The pilot falls in love with the home-owner's daughter, their relationship grows and eventually they travel together across France, seeking a way back to England. Fair Stood the Wind for France rises above the average romance, however. Set against the horrors of war, it takes on a life-affirming force, enhanced by the simple, yet elegant prose of the author. Bates also excels at evoking a sense of place; much of the story occurs over the course of a hot summer in rural France, and there are many beautiful descriptions of the French countryside as it bakes in the summer heat. In 1980, the book was the subject of a 4-part television mini-series by the BBC.