When the Green Woods Laugh [antikvár]

PENGUIN BOOKS 1975 WHEN THE GREEN WOODS LAUGH Born in 1905, H. E. Bates was educated at Kettering Grammar School and worked as a journalist before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he won a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. In 1941, as 'Flying OíFicer X', he wrote his two famous books of short stories - The Greatest People in the World and How Sleep the Brave -which were followed in 1944 by Fair Stood the Wind for Francé (published in Penguins). These, and his subsequent novels of Burma, The Purple Fiain and The Jacaranda Tree, and of India, The Scarlet Sword, stemming directly or indirectly from his war experi-ence in the East, won him a new reputation and, apart from their success in Britain and America, have been translated into sixteen foreign languages. Of his later books four of his humorous novels about the Larkin family are amongst those which have already appeared in Penguins. H. E. Bates lives in Kent.