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Autobiographical fiction of Marlborough boys school and of the titular David's love for his roommate Frank, mirroring Benson's experience towards Vincent Yorke.
Its first sequel, David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918) is set earlier in David's childhood and features a Carrollian dreamscape illustrated by H. J. Ford. The next title, David of King's in the UK and David Blaize of King's in the US, was published in 1924 and picks up after David's introduction to King's College, Cambridge.
Also see:
"How then do we read novels queerly, avoiding oversimplifying categories? Reading E. F. Benson (1916) ‘David Blaize’" by Steven Douglas
Editions
- London : Hodder and Stoughton (1916)
- New York : George H. Doran Company (1916)
