Publication:DSRBDNCS3E1991

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.
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 * Introduction|| align=right|ix
 * The Diversions of Amy Bondham || align=right|1
 * Entomology|| align=right|3
 * The Peerage Cure|| align=right|13
 * When Creek Meets Creek|| align=right|21
 * Doggies|| align=right|28
 * Crank Stories || align=right|39
 * The Case of Bertram Porter|| align=right|41
 * Philip’s Safety Razor|| align=right|52
 * The Hapless Bachelors|| align=right|64
 * Dicky’s Pain|| align=right|76
 * Society Stories || align=right|87
 * The Bridge Fiend|| align=right|89
 * The Drawing-Room Bureau|| align=right|98
 * Music|| align=right|106
 * Aunts and Pianos|| align=right|114
 * The Guardian Angel|| align=right|122
 * The Queen of the Spa|| align=right|132
 * Desirable Residences|| align=right|140
 * Cruel Stories || align=right|147
 * The Puce Silk|| align=right|149
 * The Godmother|| align=right|160
 * A Breath of Scandal|| align=right|172
 * To Account Rendered|| align=right|184
 * Odd Stories || align=right|195
 * The Superannuation Department, AD 1945|| align=right|197
 * The Satyr’s Sandals|| align=right|208
 * The Disappearance of Jacob Conifer|| align=right|213
 * Dodo Stories || align=right|221
 * The Return of Dodo|| align=right|223
 * Dodo’s Progress|| align=right|237
 * Spook Stories || align=right|251
 * Number 12|| align=right|253
 * The Top Landing|| align=right|259
 * Sea Mist|| align=right|264
 * style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|  Sources|| align=right style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|277
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 * The Queen of the Spa|| align=right|132
 * Desirable Residences|| align=right|140
 * Cruel Stories || align=right|147
 * The Puce Silk|| align=right|149
 * The Godmother|| align=right|160
 * A Breath of Scandal|| align=right|172
 * To Account Rendered|| align=right|184
 * Odd Stories || align=right|195
 * The Superannuation Department, AD 1945|| align=right|197
 * The Satyr’s Sandals|| align=right|208
 * The Disappearance of Jacob Conifer|| align=right|213
 * Dodo Stories || align=right|221
 * The Return of Dodo|| align=right|223
 * Dodo’s Progress|| align=right|237
 * Spook Stories || align=right|251
 * Number 12|| align=right|253
 * The Top Landing|| align=right|259
 * Sea Mist|| align=right|264
 * style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|  Sources|| align=right style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|277
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 * The Disappearance of Jacob Conifer|| align=right|213
 * Dodo Stories || align=right|221
 * The Return of Dodo|| align=right|223
 * Dodo’s Progress|| align=right|237
 * Spook Stories || align=right|251
 * Number 12|| align=right|253
 * The Top Landing|| align=right|259
 * Sea Mist|| align=right|264
 * style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|  Sources|| align=right style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|277
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 * Number 12|| align=right|253
 * The Top Landing|| align=right|259
 * Sea Mist|| align=right|264
 * style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|  Sources|| align=right style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|277
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 * style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|  Sources|| align=right style="padding-top: 0.75em;"|277
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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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 * align=center|Desirable Residences and Other Stories
 * align=center|Desirable Residences and Other Stories

E. F. Benson

Selected by Jack Adrian

Oxford  New York Oxford University Press
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Introduction and Selection of Stories © Jack Adrian 1991

First published 1991 Reprinted 1991

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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&mdash;dc20   91-9923 ISBN 0-19-212304-1

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