Woman Who Had Imagination

The Woman Who Had Imagination, H.E. Bates''s fourth volume of stories, first published in 1934 (Jonathan Cape), is a fascinating collection of contrasts. The stories combine elements of realism and poetry, beauty and ugliness, tenderness and irony. Graham Greene, writing in the Spectator, lauded the collection as ''the first volume of Mr. Bates''s maturity'' and Bates as ''an artist of magnificent...