The Complete DODO TRILOGY: Dodo - A Detail of the Day, Dodo's Daughter & Dodo Wonders (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. From Bright Young Things to wartime Mayfair: a biting social chronicleBy E. F. Benson
Length27h 44m
About this audiobook
E. F. Benson's The Complete Dodo Trilogy gathers Dodo: A Detail of the Day, Dodo's Daughter, and Dodo Wonders into a sparkling social panorama of late-Victorian and Edwardian high society. At its center is Dodo Chester, brilliant, impulsive, vain, and irresistibly alive, whose wit and will expose the rituals, hypocrisies, and pleasures of her class. Benson's prose is urbane, epigrammatic, and sharply observant, placing the trilogy within the tradition of the society novel while anticipating the comic sophistication of his later Mapp and Lucia books. Benson, the son of Archbishop E. W. Benson and a member of an intellectually prominent family, knew intimately the drawing rooms, country houses, and cultivated circles he depicts. Educated at Marlborough and Cambridge, he moved among artists, aristocrats, and literary figures, and his fiction often transforms social proximity into satire. Dodo, partly inspired by the charismatic Margot Tennant Asquith, reflects Benson's fascination with personality as performance. This trilogy is highly recommended to readers of classic social comedy, fin-de-siècle fiction, and incisive portraits of privilege. It offers not only amusement but a historically revealing study of charm, ambition, marriage, and self-invention.
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
GenreHumor
Length27 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 11, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
12Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second (pt. 2)
2Introduction
13Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second (pt. 3)
3Historical Context
14Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second (pt. 4)
4Synopsis (Selection)
15Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second (pt. 5)
5The Complete Dodo Trilogy: Dodo - A Detail of the Day, Dodo's Daughter & Dodo Wonders
16Dodo Wonders (pt. 1)
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6Dodo A Detail of the Day
17Dodo Wonders (pt. 2)
7Volume I (pt. 1)
18Dodo Wonders (pt. 3)
8Volume I (pt. 2)
19Analysis
9Volume II (pt. 1)
20Reflection
10Volume II (pt. 2)
21Memorable Quotes
11Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second (pt. 1)
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