Author:Edward Frederic Benson

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Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940)

An English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson.

Edward Frederic Benson

Works

Novels

The Lucia books

• Queen Lucia (1920) (DjVu)
• Miss Mapp (1922) (DjVu)
• Lucia in London (1927)
• Mapp and Lucia (1931)
• Lucia's Progress (1935, also known as The Worshipful Lucia)
• Trouble for Lucia (1939)

Other novels

• Dodo: A Detail of the Day (1893)
• The Rubicon (1894)
• The Judgement Books (1895)
• Limitations (1896)
• The Babe, B.A. (1897)
• The Money Market (1898)
• The Vintage (1898)
• The Capsina (1899)
• Mammon and Co. (1899)
• The Princess Sophia (1900)
• The Luck of the Vails (1901)
• Scarlet and Hyssop (1902)
• An Act in a Backwater (1903)
• The Book of Months (1903)
• The Relentless City (1903)
• The Valkyries (1903)
• The Challoners (1904)
• The Angel of Pain (1905)
• The Image in the Sand (1905)
• The House of Defence (1906)
• Paul (1906)
• Sheaves (1907)
• The Blotting Book (1908)
• The Climber (1908)
• A Reaping (1909)
• Daisy's Aunt (1910)
• The Osbornes (1910)
• Account Rendered (1911)
• Juggernaut (1911)
• Mrs. Ames (1912)
• Dodo's Daughter (1913)
• Thorley Wier (1913)
• The Weaker Vessel (1913)
• Arundel (1914)
• Dodo the Second (1914)
• The Oakleyites (1915)
• Mike (also published as Michael) (1916)
• David Blaize (1916)
• The Freaks of Mayfair (1916)
• An Autumn Sowing (1917)
• Mr. Teddy (1917)
• David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918)
• Up and Down (1918)
• Across the Stream (1919)
• Robin Linnet (1919)
• Dodo Wonders (1921)
• Lovers and Friends (1921)
• Peter (1922)
• "And the Dead Spake--" and The Horror Horn (1922)
• Colin: A Novel (1923)
• David of King's (1924)
• Alan (1924)
• Expiation (1924)
• Visible and Invisible (1924)
• Colin II (1925)
• Rex (1925)
• A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
• Mezzanine (1926)
• Pharisees and Publicans (1926)
• Paying Guests (1929)
• The Inheritor (1930)
• Secret Lives (1932)
• Travail of Gold (1933)
• Raven's Brood (1934)

Short story collections

The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (1912)

• The Room in the Tower
• Gavon's Eve
• The Confession of Charles Linkworth
• At Abdul Alt's Grave
• The Shootings of Achnaleish
• How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
• Caterpillars
• The Cat
• The Bus-Conductor
• The Man Who Went Too Far
• Between the Lights
• Outside the Door
• The Other Bed
• The Thing in the Hall
• The House with the Brick-Kiln
• The Terror by Night

Visible and Invisible (1923)

• And the dead Spoke...
• The Outcast
• Machon
• Negotium Perambulans...
• Inscrutable Decrees
• The Gardener
• Mr Tilly's Seance
• Mrs Amworth
• In The Tube
• Roderick's Story
• The Horror-Horn

Spook Stories (1928)

• Reconciliation
• The Face
• Spinach
• Bagnell terrace
• A Tale of an Empty House
• Naboth's Vineyard
• Expiation
• Home, Sweet Home
• And No Birds Sing
• The Corner House
• Corstophine
• The Temple

More Spook Stories (1934)

• The Step
• The Bed by the Window
• James Lamp
• The Hanging of Alfred Wadham
• The Wishing-Well
• The Bath-Chair
• Pirates
• Monkeys
• Christopher Came Back
• The Sanctuary
• Thursday Evenings
• The Psychical Mallards

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1940, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.