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Paying Guests by E.F. Benson; new introduction by Stephen Pile is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Paying Guests about?
We are at Wentworth, a guest house in the fictional town of Bolton Spa, which offers baths and nasty-smelling waters to a group of permanent invalids. Wentworth is terribly genteel, recognized not only for the comfort it offers but also for the social standing of its guests. Who this being a Benson novel are silly at best, stupendously annoying at worst. The stars of the show are the pompous, self-regarding Colonel Chase, a former Indian Army officer who lords it over the other guests at Wentworth, bragging incessantly about his excellent health and bullying them all at the bridge table, a pair of middle-aged spinsters who later become a couple and a Mrs. Bliss who espouses Mental Science, a thin disguise for Christian Science...
Who reads Paying Guests?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- E.F. Benson; new introduction by Stephen Pile
- Publisher
- The Hogarth Press Ltd
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780701219024
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (88 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14