The Freaks of Mayfair Author:E. F. Benson Here, in the fictional extravaganza, are the bizarre, the great and the greedy of high society - inveterate snobs and vicious gossips rolling up to the receptions in Belgravia; elegant young man with a taste for embroidery; health - cult devotees playing badminton on the parquet floors of the abandoned ballrooms; fossilized disasters off to seel... more »ances in Chesterfield Square - prime specimens of the Edwardian bell-monde impaled on the pin of E. F. Benson's genius. These hilarious vignettes, illustrated with the original line drawings, from a gallery of all the colorful characters from the glittering world which E. F. Benson knew so well and which he displays so brilliantly for our entertainment. E.F. Benson (1867- 1940), one of six eccentric children of the Archbishop of Canterbury and one of our greatest humorous, wrote biography, essays, memoirs and fiction, including such unforgettable novels as Paying Guests and Map and the Lucia. New introduction by Christopher Hawtree.« less