The Freaks of Mayfair
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408603048 (1408603047)
Publish date: October 1st 2007
Publisher: Nash Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
The Freaks of Mayfair is a series of portraits of fictional inhabitants of Mayfair. The stories, in so far as they are stories rather than vignettes, are not related to each other, and I think the book would have worked better for me if they had been. Without this connection, the portraits, while...
Books of 1916: E.F. Benson Edition Freaks of Mayfair by E.F. Benson E.F. Benson is one of the most reliable writers. He always serves up something tasty. Freaks of Mayfair is not a novel but a series of comic sketches of the kinds of “freaks” who lived in Mayfair, an area of London that I know m...