Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson. There\"s nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There\"s nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that?...

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....

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

A classic story of the people who move and shake in the tense, polite and sometimes dangerous world of a quiet village in Edwardian Britain. This classic novel, originally published in 1894, is being republished here together with a new introductory biography of the author. ...

Lucia returns in the second instalment of E. F. Benson's classic series. Here we find Lucia battling here way to the top of the social ladder in the small village of Tilling, Miss Mapp, Lucia's nemesis will not let that happen with out a very polite and cordial fight....

The first in the ever popular Lucia series, originally published in 1920. Lucia is a social climber in the small town of Riseholme and will stop at nothing to be seen as the very best hostess on the social circuit. A wonderfully satirical look at the world of Edwardian England....

Miss Mapp and Lucia return in the fifth instalment of E. F. Benson's classic series. Here we find Lucia battling here way to the top of the social ladder in the small village of Tilling, Miss Mapp here nemesis will not let that happen with out a very polite and gentile fight....

E. F. Benson is well known for his 'Lucia and Mapp' series but here we see a different side to his work. 'Iron Cross and Crescent' is a scholarly and well researched history of the relationship between Turkey and Germany in the decades before the First World War....

The final instalment in the wonderful Lucia series. Lucia must yet again lie, trick and deceive to maintain social position as the queen of Tilling. Lucia is probably the greatest creation of E. F. Benson, a social climbing socialite from the small village of Riseholme....

Dodo is one of Benson's most loved characters, a queen of London high society who in this volume must come face to face with the challenges and changes of the First World War. This book was originally published in 1921. We are republishing it here with a new introductory biography of the author. ...

Europe is about to enter its darkest days, the long night of the First World War, Michael finds himself unloved by his parents and finding love in the arms of German singer Sylvia, he must make hard decisions between his patriotic feelings and the undeniable love he has for his new fiancee....