Colin

By E.F. Benson

In Elizabethan times, Colin Stanler, first Earl of Yardley, made a certain Satanic bargain, ensuring to himself, and those of his descendants who did not personally repudiate it, boundless prosperity at the traditional price of the Faust legend. The story relates how, three hundred years later, at the present day, young Colin Stanler of the direct line confirms the deed executed by his ancestor. But what happens next?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reading Essentials
• Release date: Jun 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781773239859

E.F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer. Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. A great humorist, he achieved success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo(1893). Benson was a prolific author, writing over one hundred books including serious novels, ghost stories, plays, and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia and Mapp comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. Benson served as mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.