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The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume One by E.F. Benson (Paperback, 2011)
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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 village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is her prince-consort , the outrageously camp Georgie is her gentleman-in-waiting , the village green is her parliament , and her subjects, such as Daisy Quantock, are hapless would-be 'Bolsheviks'. In 'Lucia in London', the prudish, manically ambitious Lucia launches herself into the louche world of London society. Her earnest determination to learn all about modern movements makes her the perfect comic vehicle for Benson's free-wheeling satire of salon society, and of the dominant fads and movements of the 1920s, including vegetarianism, yoga, palmistry, Freudianism, seances, Post-Impressionist art and Christian Science. 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: 'Queen Lucia', 'Miss Mapp' and 'Lucia in London'. 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-139781840226737
eBay Product ID (ePID)99877800
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume One
AuthorE.F. Benson
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2011
Number of Pages640 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
VolumeVolume 1
Item Weight394g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorE.F. Benson
Series TitleWordsworth Classics
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 07 Oct, 2020
Very funny snobbery
I first saw the latest tv adaptation of these stories then found out there was a book . It’s very well written and makes me smile as I read it .Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Oct, 2023
Enjoyable Book!
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- 17 Jun, 2020
Happy with the book
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- 16 May, 2019
The complete Mapp and Lucia vol 1.
Hilarious.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
