The Complete Works of E.F. Benson

by E.F. Benson

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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.
Table of Contents:
Make Way For Lucia:
Queen Lucia
Miss Mapp
Lucia in London
Mapp and Lucia
Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia
Trouble for Lucia
The Male Impersonator
Desirable Residences
Novels:
Dodo; A Detail of the Day
Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second
Dodo Wonders
David Blaize
David Blaize and the Blue Door
David Blaize of King's
The Rubicon
The Judgement Books
The Vintage
Mammon and Co.
Scarlet and Hyssop
The Relentless City
The Valkyries
The Angel of Pain
The House of Defence
The Blotting Book
Daisy's Aunt
Mrs. Ames
Thorley Weir
Arundel
Michael
Up and Down
Across the Stream
Paying Guests
Short Story Collections:
The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories
The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories
Visible and Invisible
Spook Stories
More Spook Stories
Historical Works:
Deutschland Über Allah
Crescent and Iron Cross
Charlotte Bronte

Genres: Short Stories, Horror

9632 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2012

About the author

Edward Frederic "E. F." Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer.

E. F. Benson was the younger brother of A.C. Benson, who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory", Robert Hugh Benson, author of several novels and Roman Catholic apologetic works, and Margaret Benson, an author and amateur Egyptologist.

Benson died during 1940 of throat cancer at the University College Hospital, London. He is buried in the cemetery at Rye, East Sussex.

Last paragraph from Wikipedia

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Introduction ✔
Across the Stream • (1919) 2.5⭐
The Blotting Book • (1908) 3⭐
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery • (1911) 5⭐
At Abdul Ali's Grave • (1899) 4⭐
Mrs. Amworth • (1922) 5⭐
The House with the Brick-Kiln • (1908) 3.5⭐
The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) 3⭐
The Bus-Conductor • (1906) 4.25⭐
Caterpillars • (1912) 5⭐
And the Dead Spake • (1923) (variant of "And the Dead Spake..." 1922) 5⭐
The Dust-Cloud • (1906) 4.25⭐
The Cat • (1905) 4⭐
The Gardener • (1922) 3⭐
The China Bowl • (1916) 3.5⭐
Gavon's Eve • (1906) 4⭐
The Horror-Horn • (1922) 5⭐
In the Tube • (1922) 3.75⭐
The Confession of Charles Linkworth • (1912) 3⭐
Negotium Perambulans • (1922) 4⭐
The Other Bed • (1908) 3.5⭐
Outside the Door • (1910) 3⭐
The Room in the Tower • (1912) 4.5⭐
The Shootings of Achnaleish • (1906) 4.25⭐
The Terror by Night • (1912) 4⭐
Mr. Tilly's Seance • (1922) 4.25⭐
Reconciliation • (1924) 3.25⭐
The Face • (1924) 5⭐
Spinach • (1924) 3.25⭐
Bagnell Terrace • (1925) 4.25⭐
A Tale of an Empty House • (1925) 3.25⭐
Naboth's Vineyard • (1923) 3.25⭐
Expiation • (1923) 3⭐
Home, Sweet Home • (1927) 3.5⭐
And No Bird Sings • (1926) 4⭐
The Corner House • (1926) 3.5⭐
Corstophine • (1924) 4.25⭐
The Temple • (1924) 5⭐

[Ron Hardwick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of course I read this for the Mapp and Lucia stories, which give a grand view of middle-class life in the 1920s. Benson creates memorable characters all round. The two protagonists, or should we say antagonists, are utterly distinct in their manners, customs and dialogue and are rounded because they are both flawed - one (Lucia) lofty and regal, the other (Mapp) small-minded and garrulous. Georgie, too, the fussy suitor and later husband of Lucia and Major Benjy, the drink-sodden golf-addict who eventually marries Mapp and harks back to his service in India by the incongruous use of Indian phrases, are all memorable. The television series does do justice to the narratives, and the choice of actors (Geraldine McEwen, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne and Dennis Lill) inspired.

[Bee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read -

And No Bird Sings - 4/5
And the Dead Spake. Jul 22. 3/5.
The Bed by the Window - 3/5.
Between the Lights - 3/5
The Blotting Book 3/5
Caterpillars - 3/5
The Face 3/5
The Man Who Went Too Far - 3/5
Negotium Perambulans - 4/5
The Room in the Tower - 4/5