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Author : Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Uncle Silas written by Herbert Ernest Bates and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.E. Bates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448215323
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Uncle Silas Stories written by H.E. Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bates's famous loveable rogue, Uncle Silas, has a unique range of work to his name. For the first time, all of these stories are gathered together in one collection, allowing readers to experience Silas from multiple perspectives. Some tales offer sly, affectionate glimpses of the narrator's great-uncle Silas – the rural oldster of the earthy, boozy, incorrigible school. But there is also an active tenderness as seen in 'The Revelation,' where the narrator watches old Silas being given a bath by his surly, long-time housekeeper – and realises that their relationship is intensely romantic. In 'The Lily', in a voice at once dreamy, devilish, innocent, mysterious and triumphant, 93-year-old Silas recalls his more youthful days of poaching and wooing. Elsewhere, in 'A Funny Thing' Silas chortles over tall tales of his Casanova days, trying to out-lie his dandyish, equally ancient brother-in-law, Cosmo. There are nostalgic vignettes of roof-thatching, pig-wrestling, and grave-digging. Bates claims some of the stories to be "so near to reality that they needed only the slightest recolouring on my part", citing 'The Wedding,' 'The Revelation,' 'Silas the Good,' and 'The Death of Uncle Silas'. It is in these examples that we see how he was inspired by that “apocryphal legend” borne of “every country child who keeps his ears cocked when men are talking." Silas shrewdly and gently opens the eyes of his young listener to the adult world. V.S. Pritchett acknowledged Bates's gift in the short story genre, finding that he avoided farce with Silas through the use of the "passive, wondering audience" of the boy and the fidelity of style to the "techniques of rural story-telling...Uncle Silas is in fact the scandalizing village memory at work."
Author : H. E. Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Uncle Silas written by H. E. Bates and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen M. Giles
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402240910
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death (and Further Adventures) of Silas Winterbottom: The Body Thief written by Stephen M. Giles and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.
Author : Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Uncle Silas. Stories written by Herbert Ernest Bates and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Uncle Silas written by Herbert Ernest Bates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Silas House
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202971
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Clay's Quilt written by Silas House and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain roads. That journey ends in the death of Clay's mother. It's a day that comes to haunt her only son, who's left without a family and a history. This is the story of how Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love with his town but unsure of his place within it, finds a family to call his own. And it's the story of the people who become part of the life he shapes: Aunt Easter, always filled with a sense of foreboding and bound to her faith above all; Uncle Paul, quietly producing quilt after quilt; Dreama, beautiful and flighty; Evangeline, the untameable daughter of a famous gospel singer; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends its way into Clay's heart. Together, they all help Clay to fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces are around him. Authentic and moving, Clay's Quilt is both the story of a young man's journey and of Appalachian people struggling to hold on to their heritage.
Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uncle Silas Illustrated written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram-Haugh", is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike. It is an early example of the locked-room mystery subgenre, rather than a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist, philosopher and Christian mystic.
Author : J. S. LeFanu
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144690
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ghost Stories and Mysteries written by J. S. LeFanu and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRemaining supernatural fiction by writer many consider greatest ghost story writer of all time. Mystery stories are equally memorable. /div
Author : Si Robertson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471133729
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Si-cology 1 written by Si Robertson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The star of the global hit TV series Duck Dynasty gives his inside track on life and the Roberston clan. With more than 12 million viewers in the US now tuning in to watch the latest episodes of the Duck Dynasty, and a growing cult following in the UK and around the world, there is sure to be an eager audience for this wonderful volume from the Ducks' favourite uncle. Si is the wise-cracking, tea-drinking uncle of the Robertson clan. His book showcases his unique, often weirdly true (if somewhat nonsensical) sayings about life, ducks and everything in between. He talks about his off-screen family members, including his wife and children, to provide a new insight to the wider Robertson world and give a revealing glimpse into his life and times - something that is sure to delight his millions of fans. In a world that is often made more complicated than it needs to be, the Robertsons show that there is another way to achieve peace and happiness. With more than a million copies already sold in the US, where it has been a No 1 bestseller, Si-Cology 1 is the perfect gift for all fans of the Duck Dynasty.
