"Introduction" [to Six Stories by various authors]

Bates discusses challenges posed by the novella form before briefly explaining his choice of novellas by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Max Beerbohm, James Joyce, Hemingway, and himself ("The Cruise of the Breadwinner"), in each case revealing qualities that valued throughout his writing career.

In Six Stories by various authors (Selected by H.E. Bates, London: Oxford, 1965, pp. vii-xvii, attached).