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Author | H. E. Bates |
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Cover artist | James Broom-Lynne[1] |
Language | English |
Genre | Comedy novel |
Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1958 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
ISBN | 0-14-001602-3 |
Followed by | A Breath of French Air |
The Darling Buds of May is a novella by British writer H. E. Bates published in 1958. It was the first of a series of five books about the Larkins, a rural family from Kent. The title of the book is a quote from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date; [...]