E.F. Benson





E.F. Benson

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born
in Crowthorne, The United Kingdom
July 24, 1867

died
February 29, 1940

gender
male

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About this author

Edward Frederic Benson wrote comic novels, ghost stories, novels of manners, memoirs and reminiscences, and informal biographies -- almost 100 books in total.


Average rating: 4.09 · 8,868 ratings · 903 reviews · 177 distinct works · Similar authors
Queen Lucia (Lucia, #1)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,254 ratings — published 1920 — 61 editions
Mapp and Lucia (Lucia, #4)
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 904 ratings — published 1931 — 26 editions
Miss Mapp (Lucia, #3)
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 594 ratings — published 1922 — 41 editions
Lucia in London (Lucia, #2)
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 1927 — 15 editions
Trouble for Lucia (Lucia, #6)
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 1939 — 16 editions
Make Way for Lucia
4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
The Worshipful Lucia
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 1935 — 13 editions
The Collected Ghost Stories...
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
Lucia Rising
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
Lucia Victrix
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
More books by E.F. Benson…
Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Lucia in London Mapp and Lucia The Worshipful Lucia Trouble for Lucia
Lucia (10 books)
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4.2713715605965135 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 4,761 ratings
“The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.”
E.F. Benson, Queen Lucia

“An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.”
E.F. Benson

“...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")”
E.F. Benson, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

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