Make Way For Lucia - Part IV: Mapp and Lucia

E(dward) F(rederic) Benson (Author); Nancy Mitford (Foreword by)

ISBN 10: 0060807148 / ISBN 13: 9780060807146

Published by Harper Perennial Library/Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, London, et al., 1984

About this Item

382 pp. Part IV issue only! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased and slanted spine. Front cover bent.

Seller Inventory # 2iEg0035f

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Make Way For Lucia - Part IV: Mapp and Lucia
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Library/Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, London, et al.
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060807148
• ISBN 13: 9780060807146
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Illustrator: Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design)
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • English & British Studies, Literature, History
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel
  • Literature: World Famous & Intl. Literature

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Synopsis

The middle novel of Benson's six-book "Lucia" series sets Lucia in an English summer resort town.

From the Publisher

Mrs. Emmeline Lucas (Lucia to her friends) is the recently-widowed newcomer to the village of Tilling, eager to wrest the reins of social supremacy from the incumbent Miss Elizabeth Mapp and to install herself as its benevolent dictator. In their polite acts of sabotage, as they ruthlessly jockey for the position of cultural arbiter, Mapp and Lucia tear up the conventions of drawing-room diplomacy and enter a protracted conflict using fêtes, garden parties, musical soirées, and bridge evenings as their deadly weapons. Things finally come to a head with Miss Mapp¹s audacious attempt to steal her rival¹s celebrated recipe for Lobster à la Riseholme. With a charming satirical bent, E.F. Benson turns the pretensions and snobberies of English village life into a deliciously wicked comedy. E.F. Benson (1867­1940) was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a member of a distinguished and eccentric family. He wrote more than 100 books but is best remembered for his Lucia novels, written between 1920 and 1939.