DAVID BLAIZE TRILOGY – Complete Collection (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. David Blaize, David Blaize and the Blue Door & David Blaize of King'sBy E. F. Benson
Length24h 24m
About this audiobook
The David Blaize Trilogy gathers E. F. Benson's elegant schoolboy sequence—David Blaize, David Blaize and the Blue Door, and David of King's—into a single illustrated edition, tracing David from public-school games, friendships, and moral awakenings to the more rarefied imaginative territories of dream and university life. Benson's prose is lucid, ironic, and finely observant, poised between the late-Victorian school story and the modern psychological novel, with moments of fantasy complicating its apparently familiar coming-of-age pattern. E. F. Benson (1867–1940), son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, grew up within a cultivated, intellectually ambitious family that produced several writers. Educated at Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge, he knew intimately the institutions, rituals, loyalties, and emotional intensities he depicts. Though best remembered for the Mapp and Lucia novels and ghost stories, Benson here draws on personal memory and social acuity to examine youth with unusual tenderness. This collection is recommended to readers interested in English public-school fiction, Edwardian sensibility, queer literary subtext, and the evolution of adolescence in fiction. It offers charm, wit, and psychological delicacy in equal measure.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length24 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 11, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11David Blaize and the Blue Door (pt. 1)
2Introduction
12David Blaize and the Blue Door (pt. 2)
3Historical Context
13David Blaize of King’s (pt. 1)
4Synopsis (Selection)
14David Blaize of King’s (pt. 2)
5David Blaize Trilogy – Complete Collection: David Blaize, David Blaize and the Blue Door & David Blaize of King’s (Illustrated Edition)
15David Blaize of King’s (pt. 3)
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6David Blaize (pt. 1)
16David Blaize of King’s (pt. 4)
7David Blaize (pt. 2)
17Analysis
8David Blaize (pt. 3)
18Reflection
9David Blaize (pt. 4)
19Memorable Quotes
10David Blaize (pt. 5)
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