H. E. Bates was one of the most prolific English writers of his generation. From 1926 to 1972 he published, on average, more than one book of fiction a year as well as many nonfiction and juvenile wor...
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The term Midlands is not very descriptive when applied to those counties in central England whose towns and cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were outgrowths of the Industrial Revolutio...
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H(erbert) E(rnest) Bates