Arthur Christopher Benson: 53 books

A.C. Benson was a popular British essayist and poet in the late 19th century, and many of his works continue to be read today.

A.C. Benson was a popular British essayist and poet in the late 19th century, and many of his works continue to be read today.

A.C. Benson was a popular British essayist and poet in the late 19th century, and many of his works continue to be read today.

A.C. Benson was a popular British essayist and poet in the late 19th century, and many of his works continue to be read today.

A.C. Benson was a popular British essayist and poet in the late 19th century, and many of his works continue to be read today.

A.C. Benson was a popular British essayist and poet in the late 19th century, and many of his works continue to be read today.

A classic collection of short stories, featuring the following tales: "The Isles of Sunset," "The Waving of the Sword," "Renatus," "The Slype House," "Out of the Sea," and "Paul the Minstrel."

From the introduction:    The book that follows is an attempt, or rather a hundred attempts, to sketch some of the details of life, seen from a simple plane enough, and with no desire to conform it to a theory, or to find anything very definite in it, or to omit anything because it did not...

A classic collection of literary and philosophical essays.

This 1911 collection—or, in the author's words, "little gallery of portraits"—contains eleven brief biographical chapters on such notables as Bishop Westcott, Professor Newton, Henry Bradshaw, Charles Kingsley, and Matthew Arnold, among others.