The Collected Works of E. F. Benson (Illustrated)

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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

Dodo Trilogy:

Dodo: A Detail of the Day

Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second

Dodo Wonders

David Blaize Series:

David Blaize

David Blaize and the Blue Door

Other Novels:

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

Short Story Collections:

The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories

The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories

Historical Work:

Crescent and Iron Cross