Télécharger le livre :  The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
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United by a perfect chilling atmosphere and graceful literary style, these ghostly stories range from the horror of vampires, homicidal ghosts and monstrous spectral worms and slugs (appearing in the classic "Negotium Perambulans" and "And No Bird Sings") to the satire...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-03-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Mapp and Lucia
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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...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Lucia Rising
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Three of Benson's Lucia stories. "Queen Lucia" was published in 1920, "Miss Mapp" in 1922 and "Lucia in London" in 1927. They are much-loved novels of provincial snobbery and became a successful television series.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1991-01-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Lucia Victrix
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"Mapp & Lucia" first published in 1935. "Lucia's progress" first published 1935. "Trouble for Lucia" first published in 1939.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1991-01-03

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Télécharger le livre :  As We Were - A Victorian Peep Show
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First published in 1930. A charming memoir of the high Victorian-into-Edwardian epoch. Benson writes from the perspective of the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, moving in elite circles since his adolescence, and also his successful career as a novelist. He aims to...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Paying Guests
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The story is set around a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. It focuses on the eccentric collection of summer residents, mostly there to try and recover their health, overseen by the domineering former Indian Army Colonel Chase. According...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-01-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels
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The Mapp and Lucia novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British characters in the 1920s and 1930s, many of whom do not work for a living, who vie for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-10

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Télécharger le livre :  E. F. Benson: The Complete Supernatural Stories (50+ tales of horror and mystery: The Bus-Conductor, The Room in the Tower, Negotium Perambulans, The Man Who Went Too Far, The Thing in the Hall,...
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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known now for the Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and...

Editeur : Dark Chaos
Parution : 2018-06-21

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