Publication:DSRBDNCS3E1991

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Contents 1 Table of Contents 2 Original publication or copyright acknowledgments 3 Title page 4 Copyright page

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 Stories E. F. Benson Selected by Jack Adrian Oxford New York Oxford University Press

Copyright page

Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford   New York   Toronto Delhi   Bombay   Calcutta   Madras   Karachi Petaling Jaya   Singapore   Hong Kong   Tokyo Nairobi   Dar es Salaam   Cape Town Melbourne   Auckland and associated companies in Berlin   Ibadan Oxford is a trade mark of Oxford University Press Introduction and Selection of Stories © Jack Adrian 1991 First published 1991 Reprinted 1991 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library 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 0-19-212304-1 Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd., Guildford and King’s Lynn