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  • Audiobook

    Naboth's Vineyard

    by E.F. Benson ...
    Narrated by Roy Macready ...

    Unabridged

    31 min

    E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic “Lucia”novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. “Naboth's Vineyard” exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales. ... Read more

    $8.25 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Mapp and Lucia Collection

    by E.F. Benson ...
    Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.The Mapp and Lucia stories, written by E.F. Benson, are 20th century classics that have been turned into a popular British television show. This collection includes the ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Relentless City

    by E.F. Benson ...
    In the glittering world of early twentieth-century society, new money and old aristocracy collide as American millionaire Lewis S. Palmer and his flamboyant wife take London by storm. When the impoverished but titled Bertie Keynes seeks a wealthy American bride to restore his family fortune, he finds himself caught between genuine affection for Palmer's daughter Amelie and the painful memory of an ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Weaker Vessel

    by E.F. Benson ...
    A vicar’s stepdaughter escapes a stifling country parsonage to become a governess in London, where her latent gifts for acting ignite a consuming passion for the stage. When she marries a brilliant but dissolute young playwright, she discovers that love alone cannot shield her from betrayal—his drinking fuels his genius, while another woman exploits his weakness with calculated charm.With ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Visible and Invisible

    by E.F. Benson ...

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume One

    by E.F. Benson, Keith Carabine ...
    Series Book 1 - Wordsworth Classics
    Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, ‘as by right divine’ rules over the toy kingdom of ‘Riseholme’ based on the Cotswold village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is ‘her prince-consort’, the outrageously camp Georgie is her ‘gentleman-in-waiting’, the village green is her ‘parliament’, and ... Read more

    $3.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two

    by E.F. Benson, Keith Carabine ...
    Series Book 2 - Wordsworth Classics
    With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge, tea or dinner-party, church service, council meeting or art–exhibition are thrilling ... Read more

    $3.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapp and Lucia

    by E.F. Benson ...
    The fourth installment of the popular series-a hilarious study of 1930s manner and pecking order-begins when Lucia Lucas rents a summer place-the home of Elizabeth Mapp-in the English village of Tilling. So begins a battle of one-upmanship, peppered with queenly airs, ghastly tea parties, and unnerving bridge evenings as the two combatants attempt to out-do each other to win social supremacy. The ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Mrs. Ames

    by E.F. Benson ...
    E. F. Benson’s subject is always the petty concerns of petty people, but his talent is to make those concerns nearly as important to us as they are to his characters. For us, what happens to Benson’s people is also much funnier than it is to them. This is another of Benson’s social comedies with women battling it out for social supremacy in the village. „Mrs. Ames”, first published in 1912, has ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Trouble for Lucia

    by E.F. Benson ...
    Lucia is now rich, happily married, and Mayor of Tilling – but the village gossip is in full swing and Lucia’s arch-rival Miss Elizabeth Mapp is out for revenge. Their epic collisions rock their small society and provide the narrative engines for Benson’s gloriously farcical masterpieces. Will Lucia fall at the final hurdle? Delightfully witty and shamelessly entertaining, this is a fitting finale ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Lucia in London

    by E.F. Benson ...
    The third novel in the series, „Lucia in London” continues the adventures of Benson’s famously irrepressible characters, and bring them into hilarious conflict. Using her best social-climbing instincts and refusing to be embarrassed, Lucia sets out to conquer London and mingle with the beau monde. Soon a secret group of ’Luciaphiles’ springs up; the social climbers who make up its rank never tire ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Lucia’s Progress

    by E.F. Benson ...
    „Lucia’s Progress”, previously published in the U.S. as „The Worshipful Lucia” is the fifth of E. F. Benson’s famous series, opening about a year after the previous story ended. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to the Town Council, and Lucia speculates in gold shares. While re-decorating Miss Mapp’s house, Lucia discovers and hide the remains of a Roman Villa. Excitements ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD