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Lucia in London & Mapp and Lucia: The Mapp & Lucia Novels by E F Benson
Category: Classics | Series: Mapp & Lucia Ser.
E. F. Benson s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. The third and fourth novels in the series, "Lucia in London" (1927) and "Mapp and Lucia" (1931) continu ...Show more
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
Category: Classics
Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling... until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends. No one could compete, surely, with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses, her Italian, her financial speculations, her celebrated recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme. ...Show more
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E. F. Benson
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping ...Show more
Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp: The Mapp & Lucia Novels by E. F. Benson
Category: Classics | Series: Mapp & Lucia Ser.
"E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels revolve around two forceful and irrepressible women who dominate their respective villages in southern England and who end up hilariously at war with each other. Lucia is the more deadly of the two, with lofty morals, pretentious tastes, and a lust for power; a bene ...Show more
The Complete Mapp and Lucia: #1: Queen Lucia, Miss Map, Lucia in London by E. F. Benson
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as by right divine' rules over the toy kingdom of 'Riseholme' based on the Cotswold ...Show more
The Complete Mapp and Lucia: #2: Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress, Trouble for Lucia by E. F. Benson
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game ...Show more
The Worshipful Lucia & Trouble for Lucia: The Mapp & Lucia Novels by E F Benson
Category: Classics
E. F. Benson s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s."The Worshipful Lucia" (1935; published in the UK as "Lucia s Progress)" and "Trouble for Lucia" (1939) ...Show more
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