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The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two by E.F. Benson (Paperback, 2011)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherWordsworth Editions LTD
ISBN-139781840226744
eBay Product ID (ePID)99804724
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume Two
Number of Pages672 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicBooks
AuthorE.F. Benson
Book SeriesWordsworth Classics
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight413 g
Item Width129 mm
VolumeVolume 2
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorE.F. Benson
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- 22 Mar, 2017
Just Brilliant
The stories are based in 1930's Tilling so the language and settings are time appropriate. They tell the story of the competitiveness between the two protagonists - Mapp and Lucia. The competition comes from garden parties, bridge parties and who serves the best lobster - so all very gentle but highly amusing. E F Benson has captured the characters brilliantly and you can't help but be a little in love with Lucia whilst feeling ever so slightly sorry for Mapp. All the other characters are equally as spellbinding as the main two - Georgie and Diva who play hapless sidekicks to Mapp and Lucia - Diva, the artist who is very forward thinking. Major Benjy the heavy drinking macho male of the piece and the multi accented Padre. There are a plethora of minor characters but they are all so well observed and introduced that you get to know them all really well. A joyous collection of books. I first read them 30 years ago and I periodically go back to re-read them as they are timeless and still as funny today as they were on first reading. And great value.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Oct, 2023
A great read!
Great collection of Mapp & Lucia stories!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 Apr, 2025
Good quality item. Very pleased. ...
Good quality item. Very pleased.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
