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Title: Miss Mapp: Library Edition (Make Way for Lucia) by E. F. Benson, Nadia May ISBN: 0-7861-9699-8 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $64.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Miss Mapp writes "Miss Mapp"
Comment: Halfway through his Lucia series, Benson, probably realizing what a tedious phoney Mrs. Emmeline Lucas was turning out to be, decided to fashion a worthy adversary for her: a formidable old fadge named Miss Mapp. This required a change of venue, as well: from Olde Englysh Riseholm to the seacoast hamlet of Tilling. It's an inspired move (possibly due to Lucia's conspicuous absence; she does not lock horns with Mapp until the next book, Mapp & Lucia). Benson dissects a small sector of the British upper-middle class -- monied drones -- with such surgical skill that it's like sitting down to a strawberry high tea. From Major Benjy to Diva Plaistow and Barbara ("I think we can all squeeze into the Royce") Wyse, O.B.E, these self-infatuated twits spin out their days doddering from bridge game to garden party, from fad to diversion, all deliriously anxious about their place in the town's, and the Empire's, pecking order. This is a trival subject treated as drily and wittily as one could hope for, and written as the sun began to set on England's ambitions and literary heritage. Biographical note: Benson bought Henry James's house in Rye (the model for Tilling), and when showing it to visitors used to announce, "This is Miss Mapp's garden room. And I am Miss Mapp."
Rating: 5
Summary: she's worse than you mother-in-law, but more fun to read
Comment: Well, after meeting Queen Lucia, I quite enjoyed learning all about Tilling and its dear Miss Mapp. You will wonder who she visited in Riseholm, and you will die from the anticipation of the two ladies meeting up in subsequent books (you won't be disappointed!). The characters are fantastic, the situations are comic, and I absolutely loved this book! I am officially hooked on the entire series! I hope you will try it and love it just as much as I.
Rating: 4
Summary: Such fun
Comment: Miss Elizabeth Mapp lives in the English village of Tilling and there she attempts to be part of the cream of Tilling's society. With a steady diet of gossip, Miss Mapp and her circle of fellow residents flavor their lives with eyes on the goal of status. Benson's sharply observed and satirical tale is part of the Mapp & Lucia series, which pokes fun at English society of the times. Like an early ancestor of "Dynasty" or anything else produced by Aaron Spelling, the Mapp and Lucia stories are big fun for any Anglophile or fan of camp literature.
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Title: Queen Lucia: A Novel (Lucia) by E. F. Benson ISBN: 1559212527 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd. Pub. Date: 28 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Trouble for Lucia: A Novel by E. F. Benson, Micheàl MacLiammóir ISBN: 1559212985 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd. Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson ISBN: 1559212322 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lucia's Progress: A Novel (Lucia Series) by E. F. Benson ISBN: 1559212330 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd. Pub. Date: 13 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Worshipful Lucia Part V by E. F. Benson ISBN: 0060807156 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: May, 1984 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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