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Title	:	Mapp and Lucia (The Mapp & Lucia Novels #4)
Author	:	E.F. Benson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2004 by Black Swan (first published 1912)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Classics. European Literature. British Literature

Mapp and Lucia (The Mapp & Lucia Novels #4) Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. In Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards Lucia meets her match. Ostensibly the most civil and genteel of society ladies, there is no plan too devious, no plot too cunning, no depths to which they would not sink, in order to win the battle for social supremacy. Using as their deadly weapons garden parties, bridge evenings and charming teas, the two combatants strive to outcharm each other - and the whole of Tilling society - as they vie for the position of doyenne of the town.

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Original Title:	Mapp and Lucia
ISBN:	0141187689 (ISBN13: 9780141187686)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Mapp & Lucia Novels #4
Characters:	Elizabeth Mapp, Emmeline Lucas, Georgie Pillson, Diva Plaistow, Quaint Irene
Setting:	Tilling,1930(United Kingdom) Riseholme(United Kingdom)

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I adore these books - absolutely love Georgie and his bibelots. You just get lost in this tiny world of pugs, flowers, Queen this and that and just queens. You'll never hear Beethoven the same way again and Lucia is just perfect. These are period pieces, but they are filled with the quaint images of a splendidly underplayed hand. When "modern life" gets just too Blackberried, MSNed, and poked into a neat package of downloads, I just escape and read these over and over. These are NOT high brow.

I liked Lucia, exasperating and conceited as she was, in her own books. I liked Elizabeth Mapp,choleric and impossible,in her own book. But when E F Benson brought his two battle-axes together, he created an enduring delight which for me will never fade. He might be a bit of a marmite writer but when you do love him, you're a fan forever. He only wrote 6 books, but when my original anthology fell apart from re-reading I bought the whole set on Kindle. Like so many of my favourites, they are old,

A charming, witty novel from 1935. Lucia, a beautiful young widow, moves to a Sussex village long dominated by the spinster Miss Mapp; their battle for social supremacy pulsates with refined vindictiveness thatno shame heredelighted me, several times to the point of squealing aloud. Amid the hilarity, I thought differently and deeply about things like nicknaming, pet expressions and "home". I loved this a thousand times more than expected.

Lucia's arrival in Tilling, returning to Riseholme only to triumph over Daisy Quantock in the Elizabethan fete. The novel contains such delights as Mapp's retention of the garden produce while Lucia rents Mallards; Lulu v Liblib; lots of bridge; Mapp's rejection of Lucia and Georgie's piccys for the Art Show; discovery of same; the horror of the garden party; lobster a la Riseholme; Lucia's convenient influenza so she doesn't need to speak Italian to Mr Wyse's sister; Lucia's sale of The Hurst

Still hold up as a favorite, got me through surgery and a hospital stay...;-)

I'm midway through the series, and I'm totally hooked! It's hard to explain why the conniving social sparring amongst snobbish pretentious idle rich Brits in the '20s & '30s is so fascinating but I've always enjoyed a Jeeves & Wooster romp. This is how Bertie's Aunt Agatha lives.

Like reading a camp, bitchy version of Wodehouse in which every single character is a frightful, parochial snob. Delightful.