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  • The Fascinating Mrs. Halton
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    In this charming novel, E.F. Benson crafts a tale of romance, society, and intrigue. The story revolves around Mrs. Halton, an enchanting widow who captivates those around her with her wit and grace. Set against the backdrop of English high society, the novel explores themes of love, reputation, and the subtle power dynamics within social circles, all while delivering Benson’s ...
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    19,57 €

  • Michael
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    This poignant novel explores the life of Michael, a sensitive and artistic young man, as he navigates the complexities of love, loss, and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of pre-World War I England, the story examines themes of personal identity and societal expectations. Benson’s character-driven narrative captures the emotional depth of Michael’s journey from youth to...
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    23,51 €

  • Miss Mapp
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Miss Mapp, a small-minded, small-town heiress of 'a certain age,' leads an full life . . . of spying on (and attempting to best) her neighbors. A hilarious comic novel from the author of 'Queen Lucia.' 'This latest book is clever, as all that [Benson] does is clever, light, amusing, satirical, written in the smooth and easy style his earlier books have made familiar to us. Its ...
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    15,36 €

  • The Oakleyites
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer. Nowadays he is principally known for his Mapp and Lucia series about Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp. ...
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    21,68 €

  • Colin
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society. The son of E.W. Benson, an archbishop of Canterbury (1883-96), ...
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    18,60 €

  • David Blaize
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E.F. Benson’s delightfully nostalgic classic of public school life is in the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse’s Tales of St. Austin’s. Memorably evoking the joys and torments of boyhood, from midnight feasts and glorious days on the cricket field to waxy masters and hilariously embarrassing parental visits, Benson follows young David Blaize from prep school to Marchester Collete - a...
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    18,68 €

  • Michae
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.The son of E.W. Benson, an archbishop of Canterbury (1883-96), t...
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    18,65 €

  • Mrs. Ames
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E. F. Benson’s subject is always the petty concerns of petty people, but his talent is to make those concerns nearly as important to us as they are to his characters. For us, what happens to Benson’s people is also much funnier than it is to them.As with the Mapp and Lucia books Benson began to write in the 1920s, Mrs. Ames (1912) deals with the struggle of two women to be the ...
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    18,73 €

  • The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.The son of E.W. Benson, an archbishop of Canterbury (1883-96), t...
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    16,31 €

  • The Freaks of Mayfair
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    This is a series of character sketches of the various social types living in Mayfair. We have the snobs, the social climbers, the faddists, the conformists, and one character who imagines herself the heroine of sensational novels. Although it was written in 1916, this could easily have been written today, Eddie and Patsy (of Ab Fab fame) seem to have taken it as their manual on...
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    16,42 €

  • The Angel of Pain
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society. The son of E.W. Benson, an archbishop of Canterbury (1883-96), ...
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    19,85 €

  • Robin Linnet
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    The book starts with a reference to Damon and Pythias, which in the Victorian age -- and apparently also into the first few decades of the 20th century, given this book’s publication date -- was code for same-sex love. Here the love that dare not speak its name (but almost does, as is characteristic of Benson’s work) is between Robin and his best buddy from (Eton and then) Camb...
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    18,73 €

  • Visible and Invisible
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Benson’s second collection of ghost stories contains three powerful tales featuring the type of 'spectres' that Benson seems to have been most haunted by: large ('Junonian,' as he might say), attractive, cheerful, outgoing, middle-aged women. In 'The Outcast' she is a reincarnation of Judas, in 'Inscrutable Decrees' she is an emotional sadist and a murderer by omission, and in ...
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    16,31 €

  • The Vintage
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.The son of E.W. Benson, an archbishop of Canterbury (1883-96), t...
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    19,84 €

  • The Blotting Book
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Morris Assheton is due to come into his inheritance when he’s twenty-five. However, a clause in his father’s will allows him to take control of his money earlier, should he marry a woman of whom his mother approves. Morris has met and fallen in love with just such a woman, so his trustee, Edward Taynton, suggests he might want to look over the accounts of the trust. Young Morri...
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    16,40 €

  • Our Family Affairs, 1867-1896
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.The son of E.W. Benson, an archbishop of Canterbury (1883-96), t...
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    17,48 €

  • Arundel
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    16,76 €

  • Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    'Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp' collects together the first two novels of the 'Mapp and Lucia' series by E. F. Benson, English novelist, short story writer, biographer, and archaeologist. In 'Queen Lucia', first published in 1920, readers are introduced to the irrepressible Lucia and her unquenchable lust for power. She is a unique and forceful character, with a dangerous charm and...
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    15,59 €

  • The Challoners
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    A sharp, sparkling window into Edwardian England, where drawing rooms shield as much as they reveal. A satire that moves with wit and warmth, The Challoners dissects high society manners with a relish that endures.This edition from Alpha Editions unveils Benson’s deft handling of family inheritance secrets, marital expectations, and the social rituals that govern provincial Eng...
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    21,79 €

  • Deutschland Über Allah
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    A sharp, sly, and delightfully observant voyage through ideas as much as places. Deutschland Über Allah opens a window on a world where travel writing becomes a mirror for belief, power, and perception.This restored edition brings E. F. Benson’s public domain novella back into contemporary view, recasting a wry English literary voice against early twentieth-century Europe. From...
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    15,83 €

  • Ghosts of the Chit-Chat
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson / M. R. James / MRJames
    'Such things may have attached to them heaven knows what spooks and spirits.' - The IkonOn the evening of Saturday, 28 October 1893, Cambridge University’s Chit-Chat Club convened its 601st meeting. Ten members and one guest gathered in the rooms of Montague Rhodes James, the Junior Dean of King’s College, and listened - with increasing absorption one suspects - as their host r...
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    22,33 €

  • Skating Stories
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    The ten stories collected here vividly express what it was like to be a figure skater at the turn of the last century. They range from author E. F. Benson’s recollections of his childhood on the ice to clever parodies of society to chilling tales of horror. Many are set in the Swiss Alps, where the most dedicated English skaters, including Benson himself, often wintered. They ...
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    20,24 €

  • Miss Mapp
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    One of E.F. Benson principal novel is Miss Mapp from his Mapp and Lucia series, which serialized by commercial television in the 1980s under the series title "Mapp and Lucia." The principal setting of which is a town called Tilling, which is recognizably based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for many years and served as Mayor. He also lived at 25 Brompton Square, London...
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    17,44 €

  • Queen Lucia
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    One of E.F. Benson principal novel is Queen Lucia from his Mapp and Lucia series, which serialized by commercial television in the 1980s under the series title "Mapp and Lucia." The principal setting of which is a town called Tilling, which is recognizably based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for many years and served as Mayor. He also lived at 25 Brompton Square, Lond...
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    16,27 €

  • Crescent and Iron Cross
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    E. F. Benson is well known for his ’Lucia and Mapp’ series but here we see a different side to his work. ’Iron Cross and Crescent’ is a scholarly and well researched history of the relationship between Turkey and Germany in the decades before the First World War. This early work was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biogra...
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    18,83 €

  • The Blotting Book
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    One of the rare mysteries from the pen of E. F. Benson, set in a bustling solicitor’s office in Edwardian England, we meet the clients and lawyers that gossip, slander and backstab to get ahead. This classic novel, originally published in 1908, is being republished here together with a new introductory biography of the author. ...
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    22,34 €

  • Lucia’s Progress
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Miss Mapp and Lucia return in the fifth instalment of E. F. Benson’s classic series. Here we find Lucia battling here way to the top of the social ladder in the small village of Tilling, Miss Mapp here nemesis will not let that happen with out a very polite and gentile fight. This novel, originally published in 1935, is being republished here together with a new introductory bi...
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    28,49 €

  • Queen Lucia
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    The first in the ever popular Lucia series, originally published in 1920. Lucia is a social climber in the small town of Riseholme and will stop at nothing to be seen as the very best hostess on the social circuit. A wonderfully satirical look at the world of Edwardian England. We are republishing this classic work together with a new introductory biography of the author. ...
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    30,80 €

  • Across the Stream
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    A tense and horrifying tale of death and decay by the master of Edwardian horror. This early work was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ...
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    32,93 €

  • Miss Mapp
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    Lucia returns in the second instalment of E. F. Benson’s classic series. Here we find Lucia battling here way to the top of the social ladder in the small village of Tilling, Miss Mapp, Lucia’s nemesis will not let that happen with out a very polite and cordial fight. This novel, originally published in 1923, is being republished here together with a new introductory biography ...
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    28,64 €


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