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The Complete Mapp and Lucia
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Wordsworth
- ISBN
- 9781840226744
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two
- Item Height
- 198 mm
- Book Series
- Wordsworth Classics
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions LTD
- Topic
- Books
- Item Weight
- 413 g
- Item Width
- 129 mm
- Number of Pages
- 672 Pages
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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 of bridge, tea or dinner-party, church service, council meeting or art exhibition are thrilling encounters that ensure Tilling is always on a very agreeable rack of suspense . Both Elisabeth and Lucia are gross hypocrites, snobs and bullies, the huge differences in temperament and style ensure the battle is usually unequal. Elisabeth is incurably mean-spirited and Lucia suffers from splendid delusions of grandeur and personal prestige. Driven by demons of revenge, Elisabeth always acts impulsively, and therefore every revelation of her meanness allows Lucia, the consummate actress, to kill her ally with a sickening kindness. In his insightful Introduction Keith Carabine shows that these books are excruciatingly funny because Benson, like Jane Austen, invites the reader to view the world through the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia and the self-deluded chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth. Carabine also concentrates on the novels' disturbing, bitchy, camp humour whenever that horrid thing which Freud calls sex is raised. Contains: 'Mapp and Lucia', 'Lucia's Progress' and 'Trouble for Lucia'. AUTHOR: Edward Frederic Benson (1867 1940) was a prolific English writer, producing over ninety books during his long career. Best remembered for the much-loved 'Mapp and Lucia' books, he was also an adept writer of supernatural fiction.
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Publisher
Wordsworth Editions LTD
ISBN-13
9781840226744
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99804724
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Books
Book Series
Wordsworth Classics
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
413 g
Item Width
129 mm
Volume
Volume 2
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United Kingdom
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