Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp

The Mapp & Lucia Novels

E. F. Benson

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Alfred A. Knopf
15 November 2015

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Mapp & Lucia Series

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).

By: E. F. Benson
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 412g
ISBN: 9781101912102
ISBN 10: 1101912103
Series: Mapp & Lucia Series
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 15 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

E. F. BENSON was born in 1867 at Wellington College in Berkshire, England, where his father (who later became Archbishop of Canterbury) was the headmaster. Benson studied archaeology at Kings College, Cambridge and at the British School of Archaeology in Athens, where he came to know Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde. After visiting Henry James in the village of Rye, Benson eventually settled there until his death in 1940; Rye was the model for Tilling, the setting of his six popular Mapp and Lucia novels. Benson published more than one hundred books on various subjects, but remains best known for Mapp and Lucia.

Reviews for Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp: The Mapp & Lucia Novels

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