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Description for The Purple Plain
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222.
Full of mounting suspense and masterly characterisation, Bates's popular wartime novel tells the story of three very different men who, after their aircraft crashes, are forced to trek across the Burmese wilderness to safety. It is reissued by Methuen along with "The Jacaranda Tree" and "The Purple Plain" and to coincide with the re-publication in one volume of Bates' acclaimed autobiographies - "The Vanished World", "The Blossoming World" and "World in Ripeness".
Full of mounting suspense and masterly characterisation, Bates's popular wartime novel tells the story of three very different men who, after their aircraft crashes, are forced to trek across the Burmese wilderness to safety. It is reissued by Methuen along with "The Jacaranda Tree" and "The Purple Plain" and to coincide with the re-publication in one volume of Bates' acclaimed autobiographies - "The Vanished World", "The Blossoming World" and "World in Ripeness".
Product Details
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
265g
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413775979
SKU
V9780413775979
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About H. E. Bates
H.E. Bates was born in 1905 at Rushden in Northamptonshire and was educated at Kettering Grammar School. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book after which he quickly acquired a reputation for his stories about English country life. During the World War II, he was a squadron leader in the R.A.F. ... Read more
Reviews for The Purple Plain
"'One of the most exciting and perfectly executed pieces of fiction that I have ever read' Spectator
'It haunts you, alike for the queer and mounting suspense and for the masterly portraits of the three men' Sunday Times
'Few writers have a more exact feel for texture - of a flower, a face, a silence - and it ... Read more
'It haunts you, alike for the queer and mounting suspense and for the masterly portraits of the three men' Sunday Times
'Few writers have a more exact feel for texture - of a flower, a face, a silence - and it ... Read more