Author: BATES, H.E.
Title: The Nature of Love : Three Short Novels
Description: London, Michael Joseph. 1953, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, This his first published collection of novellas con contains three stories [1] Dulcima, dedicated to W. Somerset Maugham, is a tale of a simple girl in rural England whose manipulation of both an old widower and a young forest worker has tragic results.[2] The Grass God is a literary portrait of Fitzgerald, a landowner who is unfeeling in the treatment of his tenants and his wife, who, whilst bumbling through a summer affair with a young beauty, gets a taste of his own medicine.[3] The Delicate Nature follows a young man to the Malaysian jungle to assist a plantation owner, but enters into an affair with his wife.240p.End papers slightly tanned, minor wear at head and foot of spine. Very Good +/Good,Slight Chips & Tears.

Keywords: Fiction Short Stories