# The House of Quiet: An Autobiography

Author: Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60783

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+House+of+Quiet%3A+An+Autobiography+Benson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I have been reading this morning a very pathetic and characteristic document. It is a paper that has lurked for years in an old collection of archives, a preface, sketched by a great writer, who is famous wherever the English language is spoken or read, for the second edition of a noble book. The book, on its first appearance, was savagely and cruelly attacked; and the writer of it, hurt and wounded by a mass of hateful and malevolent criticisms, piled together by an envious and narrow mind, tried, with a miserable attempt at jaunty levity, to write an answer to the vicious assailant. This answer is deeply pathetic, because, behind the desperate parade of cheerful _insouciance_, one seems...

## Chapters

- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-house-of-quiet-an-autobiography-60783/chapters/12/index.md)