R H Benson Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Light Invisible (1903)
  2. By What Authority? (1904)
  3. The King’s Achievement (1905)
  4. The Sentimentalists (1906)
  5. Lord of the World (1907)
  6. A Mirror of Shalott (1907)
  7. The Queen’s Tragedy (1907)
  8. The Conventionalists (1908)
  9. The Necromancers (1909)
  10. A Winnowing (1910)
  11. The Dawn of All (1911)
  12. None Other Gods (1911)
  13. Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)
  14. The Coward (1912)
  15. The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary (1912)
  16. An Average Man (1913)
  17. Initiation (1914)
  18. Oddsfish! (1914)
  19. Loneliness (1915)

Collections

  1. Ghosts in the House (1996)

Novellas

  1. The Watcher (1903)

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R H Benson Books Overview

The Light Invisible

The Light Invisible presents a series of interconnected supernatural short stories. Robert Hugh Benson’s brother Arthur, a fellow writer, remarked of this volume, ‘The Light Invisible always seemed to me a beautiful book . It was the first book in which he spread his wings, and there is, I think, a fresh and ingenuous beauty about it, as of a delighted adventure among new faculties and powers.’

The Sentimentalists

The Sentimentalists represents Robert Hugh Benson’s first foray into ‘non genre’ fiction, as well as a significant and sensational switch from the historical novels by which he had achieved widespread popularity. This novel also marks Benson’s change to an increasingly universal outlook, as well as to a more pointed form of satire, a quality that endeared him to Evelyn Waugh.

Lord of the World

PROLOGUE’You must give me a moment,’ said the old man, leaning back. Percy resettled himself in his chair and waited, chin on hand. It was a very silent room in which the three men sat, furnished with the extreme common sense of the period. It had neither window nor door; for it was now sixty years since the world, recognising that space is not confined to the surface of the globe, had begun to burrow in earnest. Old Mr. Templeton’s house stood some forty feet below the level of the Thames embankment, in what was considered a somewhat commodious position, for he had only a hundred yards to walk before he reached the station of the Second Central Motor circle, and a quarter of a mile to the volor station at Blackfriars. He was over ninety years old, however, and seldom left his house now. The room itself was lined throughout with the delicate green jade enamel prescribed by the Board of Health, and was suffused with the artificial sunlight discovered by the great Reuter forty yeaTable of Contents CONTENTS; page; Paolo guexi; BOOK I; The Advent1; BOOK II; The Encounter93; BOOK III; The Victory 251About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at http://www. forgottenbooks. org

A Mirror of Shalott

A Mirror of Shalott is Robert Hugh Benson’s collection of supernatural norror stories, originally published in various periodicals and later collected in book form. In this volume Benson contrives to establish ‘that horrible sense of silence round about us, in which dreadful forces are alert and watching us.’ Previous to this publication, A Mirror of Shalott has been Robert Hugh Benson’s rarest title.

The Necromancers

Robert Hugh Benson 1871 1914 was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson. In 1895, he was ordained a priest in the Church of England by his father who was then Archbishop of Canterbury. His father died suddenly in 1896, and Benson began to question the status of the Church of England, eventually obtaining permission to join the Community of the Resurrection. He made his profession as a member of the community in 1901, at which time he had no thoughts of leaving the Church of England, but as he continued his studies and began writing, he became more and more uneasy with his own doctrinal position. On September 11, 1903, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1904 and was sent to Cambridge. He continued his writing career along with the usual elements of priestly ministry. He was named a Monsignor in 1911.

The Dawn of All

IN a former book, caIled Lord of the World, I attelnpted to sketch the kind of developments a hundred years hence which, I thought, might reasonably be expected if the present lines of what is caned H modern thought ‘ were only prolonged far enough; and I was infonned repeatedly that the effect of the book was exceedingly depressing and discouraging to optimistic Christians. In the present book I am attempting also in parable formnot in the least to withdraw anything that I said in the former, but to follow up the other lines instead, and to sketch again in parable the kind of developments about sixty years hence which, I think, may reasonably be e pected should the opposite process begjn, and ancient thought which has stood the test of centuries, and is, in a very remarkable Inanner, being H rediscovered ‘ by persons even more modern than modernists be prolonged instead. Ve are told occasionally by moralists that we live in very critical times, by whichAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at http://www. forgottenbooks. org

Come Rack! Come Rope!

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1913 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.

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