Delphi Collected Works of E. F. Benson

The prolific novelist E. F. Benson is celebrated for his hilarious satires of upper-middle-class life, as depicted in the ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels, and for being an adept narrator of ghost stories. This comprehensive eBook presents the largest collection of Benson’s works ever compiled in a single edition, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and concise introductions. (Version 2)



* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Benson’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* 49 novels, all with individual contents tables

* The complete ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels and stories – all six novels, linked in series order

* Many early and late novels available here for the first time in digital publishing

* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Rare short story collections, appearing here for the first time in digital print

* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories

* Easily locate the ghost stories you want to read

* Includes a wide selection of Benson’s non-fiction

* Features an autobiography – discover Benson’s literary life

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

* UPDATED with 17 more novels, 2 rare Mapp and Lucia stories, 3 more short story collections and 4 more non-fiction works



CONTENTS:



Mapp and Lucia Series

Queen Lucia (1920)

Miss Mapp (1922)

Lucia in London (1927)

Desirable Residences (1929)

The Male Impersonator (1929)

Mapp and Lucia (1931)

Lucia’s Progress (1935)

Trouble for Lucia (1939)



Other Novels

Dodo: A Detail of the Day

The Rubicon

The Judgment Books

Limitations

The Babe, B.A.

The Vintage

The Capsina

Mammon and Co.

The Princess Sophia

The Luck of the Vails

Scarlet and Hyssop

An Act in a Backwater

The Book of Months

The Relentless City

The Valkyries

The Challoners

The Angel of Pain

The House of Defence

Sheaves

The Blotting Book

The Climber

A Reaping

Daisy’s Aunt

The Osbornes

Mrs. Ames

Dodo’s Daughter

Thorley Weir

Arundel

Mike

An Autumn Sowing

David Blaize

The Freaks of Mayfair

David Blaize and the Blue Door

Up and Down

Across the Stream

Robin Linnet

Dodo Wonders

Lovers and Friends

Peter

Colin

Colin II

Paying Guests

Ravens’ Brood



The Short Story Collections

Six Common Things; Or, a Double Overture

The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories

Visible and Invisible

Spook Stories

More Spook Stories

The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories



The Short Stories

List of Short Stories in Chronological Order

List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order



The Non-Fiction

Daily Training

The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and Shrewsbury

Winter Sports in Switzerland

Crescent and Iron Cross

Poland and Mittel-Europa

Charlotte Brontë



The Autobiography

Our Family Affairs