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The <i>Nature of Love</i> (Michael Joseph, 1953) was Bates's first published collection of novellas.<br><br>It contains three stories, different in weight but similar in texture, drawing from rural landscapes and the sensitive, poignant studies of the people that bring them to life.<br><br><i>Dulcima</i>, dedicated to W. Somerset Maugham, is a tale of a simple girl in rural England whose manipulation of both an old widower and a young forest worker has tragic results. In 1971, EMI Productions released a film adaptation starring Carol White and John Mills.<br><i></i><br><i>The Grass God</i> is a literary portrait of Fitzgerald, a landowner who is unfeeling in the treatment of his tenants and his wife, who, whilst bumbling through a summer affair with a young beauty, gets a taste of his own medicine.<br><br>Further afield, <i>The Delicate Nature</i> follows a young man to the Malaysian jungle to assist a plantation owner, but enters into an affair with his wife.<br><br>For the first time, this collection includes the bonus story 'Old Lady' which continues the retrospective theme and the dalliances of young romance.