A Winnowing

Mixing such seemingly incongruous elements as social satire, near-slapstick, and obsession with death, A Winnowing, first published in 1910, is the first of Robert Hugh Benson's "mainstream" novels.

An undeservedly overlooked work today, the novel flays Edwardian society in terms that bring to mind the comedy of P. G. Wodehouse and the black humor of Evelyn Waugh.

Benson's novel contrasts the secular dogma that only the material world is of value, with the belief that death is what gives life its meaning.


224 pages

ISBN # 9781602100053

$20.00 USD
£14.00 UK

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