Other Fiction Benson, E. F: Trouble for Lucia. V1. 26 Mar 2011

[crutledge]

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred. Edward Frederic Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. One of our greatest humorists, he achieved great success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo (1893). He was a prolific author writing over a hundred books: serious novels, ghost stories, plays and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. He became mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.

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Lucia Pillson, the Mayor-Elect of Tilling and her husband Georgie were talking together one October afternoon in the garden-room at Mallards. The debate demanded the exercise of their keenest faculties. Viz:
Should Lucia, when next month she entered on the supreme Municipal Office, continue to go down to the High Street every morning after breakfast with her market-basket, and make her personal purchases at the shops of the baker, the grocer, the butcher and wherever else the needs of the day's catering directed? There were pros and cons to be considered, and Lucia had been putting the case for both sides with the tedious lucidity of opposing counsel addressing the Court. It might be confidently expected that, when she had finished exploring the entire territory, she would be fully competent to express the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the judge. In anticipation of the numerous speeches she would soon be called upon to make as Mayor, she was cultivating, whenever she remembered to do so, a finished oratorical style, and a pedantic Oxford voice.

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[vanpelten]

Ever since I discovered E. F. Benson's "Lucia..." series here, I've become addicted to it -- despite the fact that my spouse greatly objects to my spurts of uncontrollable laughter (though I try to keep it silent as I can) while reading them on my nicely lit Kindle. Thank you all for bringing Mr. Benson -- a truly hidden gem -- to us.

I have a question regarding your Lucia posts and those of Harry T. (in addition to his Lucia Omnibus): what is the difference between yours and his? I just finished the first two books and, before continuing on with the rest of them, would like to get the most optimally formatted versions -- if there is such a thing. The duplicate titles both look good, without my reading through.

Any comment regarding this would be most welcome. And thank you and the other E. F. B. uploaders.

[vanpelten]

Hello? Anybody home in crutledge-land...? :-)

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by vanpelten

Hello? Anybody home in crutledge-land...? :-)

I finally got around to this. Sorry.

Any dullications are unintentional. I know Harry does a splendid job. If there are duplicates you'll have to do your own comparison. I tiy to keep thing simple to work for ePub, LRF, and MOBI.

Ya pays yer monies and takes yer cherce.

Charlie

[vanpelten]

Thanks for your response and clarification -- I can see you must be terribly busy, a veritable book-formatting machine you are

Seeing as it all boils down to personal preference, I'll *usually* take the newer one. My appreciation, as always.

[crich70]

Ah Crutledge I think you uploaded the wrong version to this page. It's supposed to be for the mobi format version of a book and you loaded the epub version instead.

Originally Posted by crutledge

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred. Edward Frederic Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. One of our greatest humorists, he achieved great success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo (1893). He was a prolific author writing over a hundred books: serious novels, ghost stories, plays and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. He became mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.

Excerpt
Lucia Pillson, the Mayor-Elect of Tilling and her husband Georgie were talking together one October afternoon in the garden-room at Mallards. The debate demanded the exercise of their keenest faculties. Viz:
Should Lucia, when next month she entered on the supreme Municipal Office, continue to go down to the High Street every morning after breakfast with her market-basket, and make her personal purchases at the shops of the baker, the grocer, the butcher and wherever else the needs of the day's catering directed? There were pros and cons to be considered, and Lucia had been putting the case for both sides with the tedious lucidity of opposing counsel addressing the Court. It might be confidently expected that, when she had finished exploring the entire territory, she would be fully competent to express the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the judge. In anticipation of the numerous speeches she would soon be called upon to make as Mayor, she was cultivating, whenever she remembered to do so, a finished oratorical style, and a pedantic Oxford voice.

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by crich70

Ah Crutledge I think you uploaded the wrong version to this page. It's supposed to be for the mobi format version of a book and you loaded the epub version instead.

My Pappy told me that to operate any machine you have to be smarter tthan the machins.

Thanks

[crich70]

No Problem. I figured it was accidental. It's very easy to upload the wrong file by mistake. Especially when both have the same name and it's just a difference in format.

Originally Posted by crutledge

My Pappy told me that to operate any machine you have to be smarter tthan the machins.

Thanks