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Complete Mapp and Lucia Vol.1 Author: BENSON E.F.

ISBN: 9781840226737 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 640 Published: 5 April 2011 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.6 Description: Contains: Queen Lucia; Miss Mapp; Lucia in London 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, s?ances, Post-Impressionist art and Christian Science. Meanwhile in Tilling, clearly modelled on Benson?s home town of Rye, Miss Mapp consumed by ?chronic rage and curiosity? sits at her window, armed with her light-opera glasses keeping baleful watch on her neighbours. ?Anger and the gravest suspicions about ...

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