The brother of novelist E. F. Benson, Robert Hugh Benson was an Anglican priest, who controversially converted to the Catholic Church in 1903. Benson was a prolific writer of fiction, producing the notable dystopian novel ‘Lord of the World’. His output included historical, horror and science fiction, contemporary fiction, children’s books, apologetics and devotional works and articles. He continued his writing career at the same time as he progressed through the hierarchy to become a chamberlain to Pope Pius X. His untimely death to pneumonia at the age of forty-two cut short one of the most remarkable literary careers of Edwardian England. This eBook presents Benson’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Benson’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 18 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The rare supernatural story collection ‘A Mirror of Shalott’
* Benson’s rare poetry collection — available in no other collection
* Wide range of religious works by Benson
* Features the memorial book written by the author’s friends soon after his sudden death
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Novels
The Light Invisible (1903)
By What Authority? (1904)
The King’s Achievement (1905)
The History of Richard Raynal (1906)
The Sentimentalists (1906)
The Queen’s Tragedy (1907)
Lord of the World (1907)
The Conventionalists (1908)
The Necromancers (1909)
A Winnowing (1910)
None Other Gods (1911)
The Dawn of All (1911)
The Coward (1912)
Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)
An Average Man (1913)
Oddsfish! (1914)
Initiation (1914)
Loneliness? (1915)
The Short Story Collection
A Mirror of Shalott (1907)
The Children’s Books
Alphabet of Saints (1905)
A Child’s Rule of Life (1913)
The Poetry
Poems (1914)
The Religious Works
The Religion of the Plain Man (1906)
Christ in the Church (1911)
Confessions of a Convert (1913)
Paradoxes of Catholicism (1913)
Lourdes (1914)
The Friendship of Christ (1914)
A Book of Essays (1916)
The Biography
Memorials of Robert Hugh Benson by Blanche Warre Cornish and Shane Leslie (1914)
