E.F. Benson

Reproduction of the original: Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson

Queen Lucia

Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp

Complete Mapp and Lucia

Collected Ghost Sories of E.F. Benson

"Reigning over a social merry-go-round of dinners and parties, Mrs Ames is the undisputed queen bee of Riseborough. That is, until vivacious new villager Mrs Evans catches the eye of both her son and her husband. Not content with captivating the men in her life, 'that wonderful creature' Mrs Evans becomes not just rival to Mrs Ames' marriage, but rival to her village throne. When the whole of Riseborough is invited to Mrs Evans' masked costume party, action must be taken. As the date looms, the irrepressible Mrs Ames resolves to seize the chance to win back her position, and thus, her man." --Publisher.

A Novel

Mrs. Ames

Lucia and Mapp's adventures in Tilling continue in LUCIA'S PROGRESS, previously published in the U.S. as THE WORSHIPFUL LUCIA. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapp's house, Lucia "discovers" and hide the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ensue!

Miss Honoria West

I lingered at the window of the garden-room from which Miss Mapp so often and so ominously looked forth. To the left was the front of her house, straight ahead the steep cobbled way, with a glimpse of the High Street at the end, to the right the crooked chimney and the church.

Miss Mapp

Meet Queen Lucia, the character that inspired the BBC show, Mapp and Lucia “The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.” ― E.F. Benson, Queen Lucia E.F. Benson's Queen Lucia is a delightful and humorous novel about upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, set in the seaside town of Tilling. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. 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. This edition includes: Spook Stories: Reconciliation The Face Spinach Bagnell Terrace A Tale of an Empty House Naboth's Vineyard Expiation Home Sweet Home "And no Birds Sings" The Corner House Corstophine The Temple More Spook Stories: The Step The Bed by the Window James Lamp The Dance The Hanging of Alfred Wadham Pirates The Wishing-Well The Bath-Chair Monkeys Christopher Comes Back The Sanctuary Thursday Evenings The Psychical Mallards

25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales

Spook Stories Collection

Reproduction of the original: Michael by E.F. Benson

Michael

Andy Adams

Eleanor H. Porter

Francis Marion Crawford

Arnold Bennett

Margaret Oliphant

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Kenneth Grahame

Gertrude Stein

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

John Buchan

Anthony Hope

Alice Duer Miller

A. E. W. Mason

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Edward Bellamy

Otis Adelbert Kline

Hugh Walpole

Fitz James O'Brien

Barry Pain

Mór Jókai

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Flora Annie Steel

Amelia B. Edwards

John Ulrich Giesy

S. Baring-Gould

Charlotte Riddell

B. M. Bower

Gilbert Parker

Julian Hawthorne

Frank Richard Stockton

Richard Middleton

Jacques Futrelle

William Pett Ridge

H. and E. Heron

Daniil Kharms

Ella D'Arcy

Pierre Louÿs

Ethel Richardson

Bertha Sinclair

Valery Bryusov

Gertrude Bennett

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Richard Austin Freeman

Leonard Merrick

Ethel Watts Mumford

Anne O'Hagan Shinn

Frank Lucius Packard

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Frank Richard Stockton - John Kendrick Bangs - Kenneth Grahame - Julian Hawthorne - A. E. W. Mason - Richard Middleton - Pierre Louÿs - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole - Ethel Richardson - Gertrude Stein - E. Phillips Oppenheim - Arthur Quiller-Couch - Mór Jókai - Andy Adams - Bertha Sinclair - Fitz James O'Brien - Eleanor H. Porter - Valery Bryusov - John Ulrich Giesy - Otis Adelbert Kline - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Frank Lucius Packard - Barry Pain - Gertrude Bennett - Francis Marion Crawford - William Pett Ridge - Gilbert Parker - Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Elizabeth Garver Jordan - Richard Austin Freeman - Alice Duer Miller - Leonard Merrick - Anthony Hope - Ethel Watts Mumford - Anne O'Hagan Shinn - B. M. Bower

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