"Chateau Bougainvillaea."
On holiday in France, a young schoolteacher discovers that with her betrothed "the future was already a thing of the past." In John O'London's Weekly (April 22, 1938), Atlantic Monthly (January 1939), The Flying Goat (1939), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947), Selected Short Stories of H.E. Bates (1951), Selected Stories (1957), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009). Reprinted in The Valentine Generation and Other Stories (1980, with title "Castle Bougainvillea").
ID:
b111
Title:
"Chateau Bougainvillaea."
Genre:
Story
Page Count:
19
Word Count:
ca. 3950
Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly
John O'London's Weekly
Year of Publication:
1938
Topic:
France