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- ID
- b77
- Title
- 'The Revelation'
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 12
- Word Count
- 2470
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Courier
- John O'London's Weekly
- Story
- Publication Year
- 1934
- Document Types
- Film & Television
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
The narrator watches the housekeeper give his Uncle Silas the weekly bath; between roasting 'taters' and drinking wine, Silas relates swimming as a man, and chasing a young woman who 'run off across the meadow with my clothes under her arms'.
Claiming never to have discovered her identity he is corrected by the housekeeper: '"Get yourself dressed man! I ain't running away with your clothes now, if I did then"...And I began to understand then something I had not understood before'.
A television adaptation starring Albert Finney was aired in 2001.
Published in:
- John O'London's Weekly (June 23, 1934)
- Story (November 1934)
- Cut and Come Again (1935)
- My Uncle Silas (1939)
- Modern Short Stories (1939, with subsequent titles of Modern English Short Stories and English Short Stories, 1888-1937)
- Argosy (May 1942)
- Courier (January 1949)
- H.E. Bates (1975)
- The Best Love Stories (London: Hamlyn, 1985)
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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