Author:Edward Frederic Benson
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[edit]Novels
[edit]The Lucia books
[edit]- Queen Lucia (1920)
- Miss Mapp (1922)
- Lucia in London (1927)
- Mapp and Lucia (1931)
- Lucia's Progress (1935, also known as The Worshipful Lucia)
- Trouble for Lucia (1939)
The Dodo books
[edit]- Dodo A Detail of the Day (1893)
- Dodo's Daughter (1913) (UK: Dodo the Second, 1914)
- Dodo Wonders (1921)
Other novels
[edit]- 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) (novella)
- "The Blotting Book" Ainslee's, 1907 May (novella)
- The Climber (1908)
- A Reaping (1909)
- Daisy's Aunt (1910)
- The Osbornes (1910)
- Account Rendered (1911)
- Juggernaut (1911)
- Mrs. Ames (1912)
- Thorley Wier (1913)
- The Weaker Vessel (1913)
- Arundel (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)
- Lovers and Friends (1921)
- Peter (1922)
- Colin A Novel (1923)
- David of King's (1924)
- Alan (1924)
- Expiation (1924)
- Colin II (1925)
- Rex (1925)
- A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
- Mezzanine (1926)
- Pharisees and Publicans (1926)
Short story collections
[edit]- The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (1912)
- The Room in the Tower
- The Dust-Cloud
- Gavon's Eve
- The Confession of Charles Linkworth
- At Abdul Ali'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 Terror by Night
- The Other Bed
- The Thing in the Hall
- The House with the Brick-Kiln
- The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories (1920)
- [Blackmailing Stories]
- The Countess of Lowndes Square
- The Blackmailer of Park Lane
- [General Stories]
- The Dance on the Beefsteak
- The Oriolists
- In the Dark
- The False Step
- [Spook Stories]
- The Case of Frank Hampden
- Mrs. Andrews's Control
- The Ape
- "Through"
- [Cat Stories]
- "Puss-cat"
- There Arose a King
- [Crank Stories]
- The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
- Philip's Safety Razor
- "And the Dead Spake--" and The Horror Horn (1922) [Included in Visible and Invisible, 1923]
- Visible and Invisible (1923)
- Spook Stories (1928)
- Reconciliation • (1924)
- The Face • (1924)
- Spinach • (1924)
- Bagnell Terrace • (1925)
- A Tale of an Empty House • (1925)
- Naboth's Vineyard • (1923)
- Expiation • (1923)
- Home, Sweet Home • (1927)
- And No Birds Sing • (1926)
- The Corner House • (1926)
- Corstophine • (1924)
- The Temple • (1924)
Non-fiction
[edit]- Crescent and Iron Cross (1918)
Short works from magazines
[edit]- "The Return of the Probationer" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1893
- "The Story of a Mazurka" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1893-94
- "The Overture to "Tannhäuser"" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1894
- "A Woman's Ambition" in Windsor Magazine, Vol 13, 1900-01
- "The Alliance of Laughter" in Scribner's magazine, 1902
- "A Superfluous Loyalist" Pall Mall 1902
- "A Double Misfit," (ss) Windsor Magazine, Vol 17, 1902-03
- "The Superannuation Department, a.d. 1945," Windsor Magazine, 1905
- "The Old Bligh" Ainslee's, 1909 Feb (ss)
- "A Comedy of Styles" Windsor Magazine, 1914
- "M.O.M." Windsor Magazine, 1914
- "Bully" Windsor Magazine, 1915
- "Mrs. Andrews's Control" Windsor Magazine, 1915
- "The Sea-Green Incorruptible" in Century Magazine, 1916
- "Smorfia" Windsor Magazine, 1915
- '"Through"' in Century Magazine, Jul 1917
- "Noblesse Oblige" Windsor 1917-18
- "The Outcast" Argosy All-Story Weekly 1922
- "Adjustments" Windsor Magazine, 1923
- "Corstophine" Munsey's, 1925 (Included in Spook Stories, 1928)
- "Buntingford Jugs" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 63 1925-26
- "The Peerage Cure" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 64 1926
- "Aunts and Pianos" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 64 1926
- "The Queen of the Spa" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 64 1926
- "When Greek Meets Greek" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 65 1926-27
- "Dicky's Pain" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 65 1926-27
- "The Disappearance of Jacob Conifer" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 66 1927
- By the Sluice, The Tatler (25 March 1927)
- Sir Roger de Coverley, Woman (December 1927)
- The Woman in the Veil (1928)
- The Box at the Bank, Hutchinson's Magazine (March 1928)
- Pirates, Hutchinson's Magazine (October 1928)
- "The Hanging of Alfred Wadham" in Weird Tales, 14 (2) (August 1929) originally published in Britannia (December 21, 1928)
- "The Witch-Ball" in Weird Tales, 14 (4) (October 1929) (originally published in December 1928)
- Atmospherics, Radio Times (December 28, 1928)
- Non-fiction
- "The Social Value of Golf" Everybody's 1901
- "The Heart of India" Century 1914
- "The Golden Temple of Amritsar" Century 1914
- "Dewan-i-Khas:The Hall of Private Audience" Century 1914 (romanticised history)
Works about Benson
[edit]- "Benson, Edward Frederic," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1940, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. These works may 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.
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