Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp

The Mapp & Lucia Novels

By: E. F. Benson

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Paperback | 10 November 2015 | Edition Number 1

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The first two of E. F. Benson's beloved Mapp and Lucia novels--sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s.

E. F. Benson's beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s.

Benson's series revolves around two unforgettable characters, both forceful and irrepressible women who dominate their respective villages in southern England and who will eventually end up hilariously at war with each other. Lucia is the more deadly of the two, with her pretentious tastes, treacherous charm, and lust for power. Miss Elizabeth Mapp, on the other hand, is younger and more forceful and able to terrify her opponents into submission. Benson introduces these splendid comic creations in the first two novels of the series, Queen Lucia (1920) and Miss Mapp (1922).

Industry Reviews

"Benson's Lucia novels . . . are camp, sly, poisonous, piquant, stinging, clever, and as delightful as a glass of sweet sherry taken on a sun-dappled lawn." --The Telegraph (UK)

"Entirely delightful. . . . Superbly ridiculous. . . . Benson constructs a comedy that is as exquisite, in its way, as anything in English humorous literature." --Auberon Waugh, The New York Times

"These magic books . . . are as fresh as paint. The characters are real and therefore timeless." --Nancy Mitford, The Times (London)

"Benson's cult novels are wicked, funny masterpieces--and thoroughly addictive. . . . Lucia, Georgie and Mapp are three of the very greatest characters in English fiction, and with them you can never go wrong." --Edward Gorey, Vogue

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