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E. F. Benson - The Complete Mapp and Lucia - 9781840226744 - V9781840226744
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia

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Description for The Complete Mapp and Lucia paperback. 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). Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 46. Weight in Grams: 426.

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 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 ... Read more

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 chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth and through the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia. Carabine also concentrates on the novels’ disturbing, bitchy, ‘camp’ humour whenever ‘that horrid thing which Freud calls sex is raised’

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Product Details

Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Wordsworth Classics
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840226744
SKU
V9781840226744
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Ref
99-50

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