The following Bibliography is as complete as it currently
can be . With such a prolific writer as Bates new discoveries are still being
made. Peter Eads when writing H.E. Bates - A Bibliographical Study took
five years and much of his former police detective skill to track down what is
included. His major works total 126, his short stories and novellas totalled
323, traced to 1,048 publications, his essays, articles, commentaries and
introductions reached 194, found in 249 various publications, and lastly his
poetry is a single volume of 12 poems.
Bibliography
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1926 |
The Last Bread |
1951 |
Selected Stories of H.E.Bates |
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1926 |
The Two Sisters
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1951 |
Twenty Tales |
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1926 |
The Seekers
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1951 |
The Grass God |
|
1927 |
The Spring Song and In View of the Fact That |
1951 |
Fawley Achievement |
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1928 |
Days End and Other Stories |
1952 |
The Country of White Clover |
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1929 |
Catherine Foster
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1952 |
The Face of England |
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1929 |
Seven Tales and Alexander |
1952 |
Love For Lydia |
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1930 |
The Tree |
1952 |
The Stories of Flying Officer X |
|
1930 |
The Hessian Prisoner |
1953 |
Pastoral on Paper |
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1931 |
Charlotte's Row |
1953 |
The Nature of Love |
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1931 |
A Threshing Day |
1954 |
The Feast of July |
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1931 |
Mrs. Esmond's Life |
1955 |
The Daffodil Sky |
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1932 |
The Black Boxer Tales |
1956 |
The Sleepless Moon |
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1932 |
Sally Go Round the Moon |
1957 |
Death of a Huntsman |
|
1932 |
A German Idyll |
1957 |
Summer on Salander |
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1932 |
The Fallow Land |
1957 |
Selected Stories |
|
1932 |
The Story Without an End and The Country Doctor |
1957 |
Sugar for the Horse |
|
1933 |
The Fallow Land (USA) |
1958 |
The Darling Buds of May |
|
1933 |
The House with the Apricot and Two Other Tales |
1959 |
A Breath of French Air |
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1934 |
The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories |
1959 |
The Watercress Girl and Other Stories |
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1934 |
Thirty Tales |
1960 |
An Aspidistra in Babylon |
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1935 |
The Poacher |
1960 |
The Grapes of Paradise |
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1935 |
Flowers and Faces |
1960 |
When the Green Woods Laugh |
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1935 |
The Duet |
1960 |
Hark, Hark the Lark |
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1935 |
Cut and Come Again |
1961 |
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Other Stories |
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1936 |
A House of Women |
1961 |
The Enchantress and Other Stories |
|
1936 |
Through the Woods |
1961 |
The Day of the Tortoise |
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1936 |
Something Short and Sweet
|
1962 |
Achilles and the Donkey |
|
1937 |
Down the River |
1962 |
The Golden Oriole: five novellas |
|
1938 |
Country Tales |
1962 |
A Crown of Wild Myrtle |
|
1938 |
Spella Ho |
1963 |
Achilles and Diana |
|
1939 |
I Am Not Myself |
1963 |
Oh! to be in England |
|
1939 |
The Flying Goat |
1963 |
Seven by Five |
|
1939 |
My Uncle Silas |
1963 |
The Best of H.E. Bates |
|
1940 |
Country Tales |
1964 |
The Fabulous Mrs. V |
|
1940 |
The Seasons and The Gardener |
1964 |
A Moment in Time |
|
1940 |
The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories |
1964 |
Achilles and the Twins |
|
1941 |
The Beauty of the Dead and One Other Short Story |
1965 |
The Wedding Party |
|
1942 |
The Modern Short Story - A Critical Study |
1967 |
The Distant Horns of Summer |
|
1942 |
The Greatest People in the World and Other Stories |
1968 |
The Four Beauties |
|
1942 |
In the Heart of the Country |
1968 |
The White Admiral |
|
1943 |
War Pictures by British Artists No. 3 R.A.F |
1968 |
The Wild Cherry Tree |
|
1943 |
The Bride Comes to Evensford |
1969 |
The Vanished World |
|
1943 |
There's Something in The Air |
1970 |
A Little of What You Fancy |
|
1943 |
Country Life |
1970 |
The Triple Echo |
|
1943 |
How Sleep the Brave and Other Stories |
1971 |
The Blossoming World |
|
1943 |
O More Than Happy Countryman |
1971 |
Dulcima |
|
1944 |
There's Freedom in the Air |
1971 |
A Love of Flowers |
|
1944 |
Fair Stood the Wind For France |
1972 |
The Song of the Wren |
|
1944 |
Something in The Air |
1972 |
The World in Ripeness |
|
1945 |
The Day of Glory |
1974 |
A Fountain of Flowers |
|
1946 |
The Cruise of the Breadwinner |
1974 |
The Grapes of Paradise |
|
1946 |
The Tinkers of Elstow |
1974 |
The Good Corn and Other Stories |
|
1947 |
Otters and Men |
1975 |
H.E. Bates |
|
1947 |
The Purple Plain |
1976 |
The Poison Ladies and Other Stories |
|
1947 |
Thirty-One Selected Tales |
1976 |
The Yellow Meads of Asphodel |
|
1949 |
The Jacaranda Tree |
1976 |
The Yellow Meads of Asphodel (the single storey) |
|
1949 |
The Country Heart |
1980 |
The Best of H.E.Bates |
|
1949 |
The Bride Comes to Evensford and Other Tales |
1985 |
Perfick ! Perfick |
|
1949 |
Dear Life |
1987 |
A Month by the Lake and Other Stories |
|
1950 |
Edward Grarnett |
1988 |
A Party for the Girls |
|
1950 |
Flower Gardening - A Readers Guide |
1989 |
Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree |
|
1950 |
The Scarlet Sword |
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1951 |
Colonel Julian and Other Stories |
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1951 |
The Cruise of the Breadwinner and Dear Life |
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The above Bibliography owes much to
patience and dedication of Peter Eads. Further recommended reading :
The Life and Times of H E Bates by
Peter Eads - Northamptonshire Libraries
H E Bates: a Bibliographical Study by
Peter Eads - St Paul's Bibliographies
H.E Bates: A Literary Life by Dean R
Baldwin - Susquehana University Press
H.E Bates: by Dennis Vannatta - Twayne
Publishers, Boston
You are also recommended to go to the
following website which is under construction by Paul Machlis in California and
which will provide a further very useful resource for study when complete:
http://library.ucsc.edu/collect/bates/index.html
