- Listenly
- Public Library
- All Authors
- E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
author
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
1867–1940
Best known for the deliciously funny Mapp and Lucia novels, this English writer mixed sharp social comedy with ghost stories, memoir, and a remarkably varied literary career. His books still charm readers with their wit, atmosphere, and close observation of small-town rivalry and human vanity.
52 Audiobooks
Queen Lucia
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The room in the tower, and other stories
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Vintage: A Romance of the Greek War of Independence
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Freaks of Mayfair
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Miss Mapp
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Queen Lucia
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Valkyries
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson, Richard Wagner
Crescent and Iron Cross
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Visible and Invisible
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Dodo's Daughter: A Sequel to Dodo
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
David Blaize
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Daily Training
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson, Eustace Miles
Scarlet and Hyssop: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Michael
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Winter Sports in Switzerland
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Relentless City
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Mammon and Co.
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Arundel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Colin
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 Angel of Pain
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Up and Down
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Dodo Wonders--
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Sheaves
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Judgment Books: A Story
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Capsina: An Historical Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Rubicon
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Daisy's Aunt
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Challoners
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Book of Months
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Colin II: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Robin Linnet
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Across the Stream
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Our Family Affairs, 1867-1896
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Blotting Book
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
A Reaping
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Deutschland Über Allah
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The House of Defence v. 1
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Mrs. Ames
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The White Eagle of Poland
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Babe, B.A.
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
An Act in a Backwater
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The House of Defence v. 2
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Princess Sophia
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Limitations: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Thorley Weir
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Osbornes
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Luck of the Vails: A Novel
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
An Autumn Sowing
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Peter
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
About the author
Born in 1867, this English novelist was one of the literary Benson family and went on to build a long, wide-ranging career as a writer. He produced novels, short stories, memoirs, biographies, and supernatural fiction, showing an ease with both comedy and eerier material.
He is especially remembered for the Mapp and Lucia series, whose battles of manners, status, and social ambition made him a master of comic observation. Alongside those books, he also wrote well-known ghost stories, giving his work an unusual range from light, sparkling satire to unsettling supernatural tales.
Benson died in 1940, but his fiction has lasted because it feels both precise and playful. Readers still return to him for his memorable characters, elegant humor, and the sense that beneath polite conversation he could always spot a quiet absurdity.