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- ID
- bx3
- Title
- "Castle in the Air."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 1
- Word Count
- 2000
- Publisher
- Evening News
- Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
- Publication Year
- 1957
- Document Types
- Autobiographical
- Eads, Additions to
- Uncollected Antemortem
- available as ebook
- Topics
- Boyhood
In a style similar to that of the Uncle Silas tales, a young boy visits with a hard-drinking poacher and hears tales of battles long ago.
Taking place at a public house run by his Aunt called "The Swan with Two Nicks," the tale may draw from boyhood memories at the Chequers pub, run by Bates's great-aunt in Yeldon.
In The Evening News, (October 12, 1957).
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