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Mapp and Lucia
E F Benson
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Description for Mapp and Lucia
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
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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 à la Riseholme. But Mapp will not relinquish her supremacy in local society so easily, and battle is joined between these two indomitable queens and their rather fickle allies.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099528425
SKU
V9780099528425
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About E F Benson
Edward Frederic Benson was born on July 24, 1867 in Berkshire, the son of a future Archbishop of Canterbury, and one of six children. He studied at Kings College, Cambridge and at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. Benson's first book, Dodo, was published to popular acclaim in 1893 and was followed by over a hundred books, including ... Read more
Reviews for Mapp and Lucia
No matter how appalling, malicious and pretentious the behaviour of Lucia, the reader is always lured into a sense of affectionate complicity with this comic monster
Daily Telegraph
Bitchily observant novel of small-town life
Independent
Sparkles with wicked wit...provides some pointed digs at social one- upmanship and the genteelly disguised venality of the upper classes. But, ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Bitchily observant novel of small-town life
Independent
Sparkles with wicked wit...provides some pointed digs at social one- upmanship and the genteelly disguised venality of the upper classes. But, ... Read more