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With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she argues...

Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Benson’s masterful book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, new, more powerful cameras in probes with greatly improved maneuverability...

Scarlet and Hyssop is a Novel by E. F. Benson. AUTHOR OF DODO MAMMON & CO.  THE LUCK OF THE VAILS, ETC. Published by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY in 1902.  E.F. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

This book, [Benson] writes, “is intended for the ‘man in the street,’ who, after all, has a certain claim on our consideration, since Jesus Christ came to save his soul.” And for the man in the street, the greatest obstacle to accepting the truth of the Catholic Faith lies not in an intellectual...

This carefully crafted ebook: “Premium Short Stories Collection - Blackmailing, Crank, Spook & Classic Tales (Unabridged) ” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist,...

E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. Benson’s series revolves around two unforgettable characters, both forceful and irrepressible...

In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, Stephen Benson proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. Postmodernist fictions have evidenced a return to narrative—to storytelling centered on a sequence of events, rather than a "spiraling" of events as...

Extract from “Letters From Zimbabwe” Trent’s pick-up has a name: ‘Fugly’. Yes, it means exactly what you think it does! When he came to pick me up, I thought a nightmare had rolled into our yard. They must have collected bits and pieces for decades and stuck them together to make this pick-up...

In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: "David Blaize and the Blue Door" from Edward Frederic Benson. Edward Frederic Benson(1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

Robert Hugh Benson (18 novembre 1871 - 19 octobre 1914) est un ecclésiastique et homme de lettres britannique. Il est le plus jeune fils d'Edward White Benson, archevêque de Cantorbéry. Lors d'un séjour au Proche-Orient, il commença à s'interroger sur les liens entre l'Église anglicane et le...

Dopo Lucia a Londra, continua la pubblicazione nella collana ‘Le Meraviglie’ del celebre ciclo ideato da Edward Benson, autore che gode ora di un’attenzione rinnovata anche grazie all’umorismo che caratterizza i suoi romanzi, capaci di resistere al tempo con incredibile disinvoltura. La regina...

Queen Lucia and Other Stories contained 10 works written by Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred These are the 10 works...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: David Blaize is E. F. Benson's delightfully nostalgic novel of English public school life. Benson follows young David Blaize from his time at preparatory school to his entry to the sixth form at Marchester...