E. F. Benson

E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was th…

E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Map…

"Dodo Wonders" is the third and last of the "Dodo" novels by E.F. Benson, author of the "Mapp and Lucia" serie…

Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Do…

A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of "Blackmailing Stories", "Spook Stories", "Cat…

These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, if by chance, anyone be occupying in their peru…

The second in the "Dodo" sequence of novels. (Summary by Crowgirl)

The second collection of short stories from the pen of E.F. Benson. Found within are stories with a touch of the authors penchant for melodr…

A satiric novel of manners written in Benson's classic style of gently poking fun at class structures and the people who fill them. This tim…

In the third book in the Mapp and Lucia series, provincial snob and social climber Mrs. Emmeline Lucas, known to her friends as Lucia, and h…

"Colin" tells the story of the Stanier family who come from Stanier, near Rye, in the county of Sussex. The first section recounts…

Written during World War I but set before the war, David Blaize is a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys boarding school. We follow David…