Miss Mapp (Make Way for Lucia, Part III) - Softcover

Benson, E. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060913746 ISBN 13: 9780060913748

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1987

Synopsis

Miss Mapp faces the challenges of two suitors and the appearance of a rival, a charming contessa, in the social world of Tilling

About this title

From the Publisher:

Like his famous Lucia character, E.F. Benson's Miss Mapp is a strikingly original comic creation, an arch-schemer and social climber from the British town of Tilling. A fortyish spinster, "anger and the gravest suspicion about everybody had kept her young and on the boil." Elizabeth Mapp spends her days looking out the window of her home, using opera glasses and a notebook to chart her neighbor's affairs. Nothing escapes her as she spies on Major Benjamin Flint (who she has been trying to marry for years,) Captain Puffin, "Quaint Irene", a free-spirited artist, and the underhanded Miss Susan Poppit, a woman plotting to purchase the ingredients of Miss Mapp's secret iced red-currant recipe. Miss Mapp is a hilarious, sharply-observed satire that lovingly--but pointedly--pokes fun at the feuds and foibles of English high society.

About the Author:

E. F. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0060913746
• ISBN 13: 9780060913748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328