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Ghost Stories: Selected and Introduced by Mark Gatiss by E F Benson
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
"Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones) selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story". (E.F. Benson). There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little cat ...Show more
Lucia Rising: Queen; Miss Mapp Including The Male Impersonator; Lucia In London by Benson E F
Category: Fiction
Lucia Victrix: Mapp and Lucia; Lucia's Progress; Trouble for Lucia by E.F. Benson
Category: Fiction
"Lucia Victrix: Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress, Trouble for Lucia".
Lucia in London & Mapp and Lucia: The Mapp & Lucia Novels by E F Benson
Category: Fiction | Series: Mapp & Lucia Ser.
E. F. Benson s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. The third and fourth novels in the series, "Lucia in London" (1927) and "Mapp and Lucia" (1931) continu ...Show more
MRS AMES by BENSON E F
Category: Fiction
Mrs Ames revels in her position of superiority as she reigns over the merry-go-round of dinner parties in her small town. It is all part of an attempt to recapture her youth, into which category falls her husband ten years her junior. The horror for Mrs Ames comes when she discovers she has been replace ...Show more
Mapp & Lucia Prion Humour Class by E. F. Benson
Category: Fiction | Series: Prion Humour Classics
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson
Category: Philosophy
Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. In Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards Lucia meets her match. Ostensibly the most civil and genteel of society ladies, there is no plan too devious, no ...Show more
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
Category: Fiction
Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling... until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends. No one could compete, surely, with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses, her Italian, her financial speculations, her celebrated recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme. ...Show more
Miss Mapp by E. F. Benson
Category: Audio Books
Nothing escapes the snooping opera glasses of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. She whiles away her busy hours observing the small English village of Tilling, and recording the antics in her notebook. But her observations are set to be disrupted by amorous advances of two retired army generals, both vying for her af ...Show more
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E. F. Benson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping ...Show more
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson
Category: Audio Books
England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas - La Lucia, as she is known - a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formality of her class. With her cohort, Georgie Pillson, and her husband, ...Show more
Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp: The Mapp & Lucia Novels by E. F. Benson
Category: Fiction | Series: Mapp & Lucia Ser.
"E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels revolve around two forceful and irrepressible women who dominate their respective villages in southern England and who end up hilariously at war with each other. Lucia is the more deadly of the two, with lofty morals, pretentious tastes, and a lust for power; a bene ...Show more