Publication:DSRBDNCS3E1991
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Table of Contents
As most of the stories are non-genre they have not been included in the publication record's table of contents. Here is the full table of contents.
Contents
Introduction ix The Diversions of Amy Bondham 1 Entomology 3 The Peerage Cure 13 When Creek Meets Creek 21 Doggies 28 Crank Stories 39 The Case of Bertram Porter 41 Philip’s Safety Razor 52 The Hapless Bachelors 64 Dicky’s Pain 76 Society Stories 87 The Bridge Fiend 89 The Drawing-Room Bureau 98 Music 106 Aunts and Pianos 114 The Guardian Angel 122 The Queen of the Spa 132 Desirable Residences 140 Cruel Stories 147 The Puce Silk 149 The Godmother 160 A Breath of Scandal 172 To Account Rendered 184 Odd Stories 195 The Superannuation Department, AD 1945 197 The Satyr’s Sandals 208 The Disappearance of Jacob Conifer 213 Dodo Stories 221 The Return of Dodo 223 Dodo’s Progress 237 Spook Stories 251 Number 12 253 The Top Landing 259 Sea Mist 264 Sources 277
The “Amy Bondham” through “cruel” plus "Dodo" stories are non-genre although The Peerage Cure has a light specfict twist but not enough to include in ISFDB. It is about a society lady who falls ill with pleuro-pneumonia and also seems to have lost the personal desire to fight the illness. The “cure,” that got her lively again, was that her husband read a section out of the Peerage book on “Whitby, Duke of, James Francis.” Presumably E. F. Benson was poking fun at the obsession some have with peerage rather than writing speculative fiction here. All of the "Odd" and "Spook" stories have been read and are speculative fiction.
Please note that the story The Superannuation Department ad 1945 is listed as “The Superannuation Department, AD 1945” with a comma in the table of contents but not in the story title, page headers for the story, nor in the “sources” list at the end of the publication. The latter also show the “AD” in a slightly smaller typeface.
Original publication or copyright acknowledgments
Pages 277 and 278 is titled “Sources” and documents the original publication for each story. For nearly all stories, this publication is the first appearance of the story in book form. The two exceptions are noted below and are “Philip’s Safety Razor” plus “Aunts and Pianos.”
- ‘Entomology’: Windsor Magazine (August 1925)
- ‘The Peerage Cure’: Windsor Magazine (July 1926)
- ‘When Creek Meets Creek’: Windsor Magazine (December 1926)
- ‘Doggies’: Windsor Magazine (January 1928)
- ‘The Case of Bertram Porter’: Windsor Magazine (March 1911)
- ‘Philip’s Safety Razor’: Pearson’s Magazine (March 1919). Reprinted in the collection The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories (1920)
- ‘The Hapless Bachelors’: Pearson’s Magazine (March 1921)
- ‘Dicky’s Pain’: Windsor Magazine (April 1927)
- ‘The Bridge Fiend’: Lady’s Realm (November 1903)
- ‘The Drawing-Room Bureau’: Women at Home (December 1915)
- ‘Music’: Windsor Magazine (December 1924)
- ‘Aunts and Pianos’: Windsor Magazine (August 1926). Reprinted in The Funny Bone, edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith (1928) which was reprinted as New Tales of Humour (1935?).
- ‘The Guardian Angel’: Woman (April 1928)
- ‘The Queen of the Spa’: Windsor Magazine (September 1926)
- ‘Desirable Residences’: Good Housekeeping (February 1929)
- ‘The Puce Silk’: Lady’s Realm (November 1907)
- ‘The Godmother’: Nash’s Illustrated Weekly (6 December 1919)
- ‘A Breath of Scandal’: The Storyteller (July 1932)
- ‘To Account Rendered’: The Storyteller (June 1925)
- ‘The Superannuation Department AD 1945’: Windsor Magazine (January 1906)
- ‘The Satyr’s Sandals’: Pan (20 March 1920)
- ‘The Disappearance of Jacob Conifer’: Windsor Magazine (October 1927)
- ‘The Return of Dodo’: Lady's Realm (December 1896)
- ‘Dodo’s Progress’, (as ‘The Progress of Princess Waldeneck’): Lady’s Realm (May 1897)
- ‘Number 12’: Eve (10 May 1922)
- ‘The Top Landing’: Eve (7 June 1922)
- ‘Sea Mist’: Illustrated London News (20 November 1935)
Title page
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Desirable Residences
and Other StoriesE. F. Benson
Selected by
Jack Adrian
Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
Copyright page
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Introduction and Selection of Stories © Jack Adrian 1991
First published 1991
Reprinted 1991All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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Data availableLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867–1940.
Desirable residences and other stories / E. F. Benson; selected by
Jack Adrian.
p. cm.
I. Adrian, Jack. II. Title.
PR6003.E66D4 1991 823'.912—dc20 91-9923
ISBN 0-19-212304-1Printed in Great Britain by
Biddles Ltd.,
Guildford and King’s Lynn