The World In Ripeness: Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In The World in Ripeness, the celebrated English writer H.E. Bates chronicles the mature years of his remarkable literary life, offering an intimate and luminous portrait of a man who transformed the English short story and novel into vessels of extraordinary sensory richness. This third volume of his autobiography covers the post-war decades of his career, drawing readers into the Kentish countryside he so passionately loved, and illuminating the friendships, creative struggles, and quiet triumphs that shaped one of the twentieth century's most prolific and beloved storytellers. Bates writes with the same lyrical precision and warmth that defined his fiction — from the earthy comedies of the Larkin family in The Darling Buds of May to the spare, devastating power of his wartime stories written under the pen name Flying Officer X. The World in Ripeness is more than memoir; it is a meditation on craft, place, and the passage of time, rendered by a writer whose prose always carried the scent of the English countryside. For readers who cherish the art of storytelling as much as the story itself, this autobiography leaves an abiding question: what does it truly mean to have lived a life in full devotion to literature?
Author: H.E. Bates
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Michael Joseph
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In The World in Ripeness, the celebrated English writer H.E. Bates chronicles the mature years of his remarkable literary life, offering an intimate and luminous portrait of a man who transformed the English short story and novel into vessels of extraordinary sensory richness. This third volume of his autobiography covers the post-war decades of his career, drawing readers into the Kentish countryside he so passionately loved, and illuminating the friendships, creative struggles, and quiet triumphs that shaped one of the twentieth century's most prolific and beloved storytellers. Bates writes with the same lyrical precision and warmth that defined his fiction — from the earthy comedies of the Larkin family in The Darling Buds of May to the spare, devastating power of his wartime stories written under the pen name Flying Officer X. The World in Ripeness is more than memoir; it is a meditation on craft, place, and the passage of time, rendered by a writer whose prose always carried the scent of the English countryside. For readers who cherish the art of storytelling as much as the story itself, this autobiography leaves an abiding question: what does it truly mean to have lived a life in full devotion to literature?