Paying Guests (Unabridged) (Annotated)

In Paying Guests (Unabridged), E. F. Benson turns the apparently modest world of a genteel boarding establishment into a finely calibrated theatre of manners. The novel observes its residents' rivalries, economies, flirtations, and vanities with comic precision, transforming domestic inconvenience into social revelation. Written in Benson's supple, ironic prose, it belongs to the interwar traditio...