Stella Benson

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This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and there are still so many to be written, that I cannot...

When Vi and Amos go diving for the first time in the West Indies, they hope to explore the recent wreck of a smuggling ship. Once underwater, Vi struggles to remember who the man up on the surface, pumping air down to their diving suits, reminds her...

The Desert Islander

The Desert Islander

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer.The Desert Islander is the story of a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who seeks help from an Englishman living in a remote part of southern...

The Man who fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores

The Man who fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer."The Man who fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores" is an amusing allegorical story about mercenary love, the gullibility of those men who keep a...

The Man who Missed the Bus

The Man who Missed the Bus

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer.'The Man Who Missed the Bus' is a creepy horror story about a lonely and eccentric man who finds himself unable to see other human faces. Worse still,...

This Is the End

This Is the End

Some books have plots that drive relentlessly toward a conclusion. Others, like "This Is The End", just meander. It is the story of a Family halfheartedly searching for a missing relation who does not want to be found, while just off-stage, World War...