| #2376295 in Books | 2015-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.20 x.90 x4.70l,.0 | File type: PDF | 420 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| For the select few..|By Derek|Not for everyone. Jane Austen comes to mind. Geriatric P&P. Plus a bit of Steven Leacock or Samuel Mark Twain Clemens. No admirable characters you would want to identify with, but an aloof and humorous narrator holds it all together. This is why the dramatizations don't work. No entertaining narrator, just the excruciating characters. It help||
"No matter how appalling, malicious and pretentious the behaviour of Lucia, the reader is always lured into a sense of affectionate complicity with this comic monster." —Daily Telegraph
Meet Mapp and Lucia—two of the most unpleasant, disgraceful women you're ever likely to encounter, in E.F. Benson's carefully observed tale of 1930s village life and social ranking
Emmeline Lucas (known as Lucia to her friends) is emerging from mourning following the death of her husband. Pretentious, snobbish, and down-right devious, she feels her hometown of Riseholme offers no challenges and decides to vacation in the town of Tilling. She r...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Mapp & Lucia | E.F. Benson. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
