author
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
1867–1940
Best known for the deliciously sharp Mapp and Lucia novels, this English writer also produced ghost stories, biographies, memoirs, and a remarkable stream of popular fiction. His work moves easily between social comedy and the uncanny, which helps explain why readers still return to it.
52 Audiobooks
The House of Defence v. 1
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Queen Lucia
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Angel of Pain
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Freaks of Mayfair
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Miss Mapp
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Visible and Invisible
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Princess Sophia
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Our Family Affairs, 1867-1896
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The White Eagle of Poland
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Scarlet and Hyssop: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Vintage: A Romance of the Greek War of Independence
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The room in the tower, and other stories
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Valkyries
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson, Richard Wagner
Daily Training
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson, Eustace Miles
Deutschland Über Allah
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Crescent and Iron Cross
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Winter Sports in Switzerland
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Colin
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Book of Months
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The House of Defence v. 2
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Up and Down
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Judgment Books: A Story
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Osbornes
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Thorley Weir
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
David Blaize and the Blue Door
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Babe, B.A. : being the uneventful history of a young gentleman at Cambridge University
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Mrs. Ames
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Mammon and Co.
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Rubicon
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Capsina: An Historical Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Daisy's Aunt
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Relentless City
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Arundel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Michael
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Sheaves
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Robin Linnet
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Dodo's Daughter: A Sequel to Dodo
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
A Reaping
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Dodo Wonders--
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Limitations: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
An Act in a Backwater
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
An Autumn Sowing
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Peter
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Blotting Book
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Luck of the Vails: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Across the Stream
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Colin II: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Challoners
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
David Blaize
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Lucia in London
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
About the author
Born on July 24, 1867, at Wellington College in Berkshire, E. F. Benson grew up in a notably literary and intellectual family. He studied at Marlborough College and King’s College, Cambridge, and went on to build a hugely productive writing career that ranged across novels, short stories, memoirs, biographies, and travel writing.
He is best remembered for the Mapp and Lucia books, a comic series about rivalry, manners, and small-town social maneuvering that has become a lasting favorite. Benson also wrote admired ghost stories and drew on his own world in autobiographical works that captured the tone of late Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian society with wit and ease.
Benson died in London on February 29, 1940. More than a century after his best-known books first appeared, he remains appealing for the same reasons he always did: a sharp eye for human behavior, a light comic touch, and an ability to be amusing or eerie exactly when the moment calls for it.