by H. E. Bates
Many other stories were adapted for the screen, the most renowned being The Purple Plain (1947) starring Gregory Peck, and The Triple Echo (1970) with Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed.
H. E. Bates married in 1931, had four children and lived most of his life in a converted granary near Charing in Kent. He was awarded the CBE in 1973, shortly before his death in 1974.
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Stories compiled from The Greatest People in the World and Other Stories, first Published in Great Britain in 1942 by Jonathan Cape Ltd, There’s Something in the Air first published in Great Britain in 1943 by Alfred A. Knopf and How Sleep the Brave and Other Stories, first published in Great Britain in 1943 by Jonathan Cape Ltd
‘Fishers’ first published in Great Britain in 1941 in The Listener
‘Happy Christmas Nastashya’ first published in Great Britain in the Royal Airforce Journal
‘The Bell’ first published in 1943 in Jerusalem Radio Forum, Royal Air Force Journal, and Times Literary Supplement
‘From This Time Forward’ first published in Great Britain in 1943 in Printer's Pie -- A Miscellany by Leading Writers by Hutchinson
‘The Three Thousand and One Hours of Sergeant Kostek’ first published in Great Britain in 1943 in English Story by Collins
Foreword © Patrick Bishop 2015
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