Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Complete Mapp & LuciaCondition: NewEAN: 9781840226744ISBN: 9781840226744Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/05/2011Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 34mmItem Weight: 413gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Volume TwoISBN-10: 1840226749Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge, tea or dinner-party, church service, council meeting or art–exhibition are thrilling encounters that ensure Tilling is always on ‘a very agreeable rack of suspense’. Both Elisabeth and Lucia are gross hypocrites, snobs and bullies, the huge differences in temperament and style ensure the battle is usually unequal. Elisabeth is incurably mean-spirited and Lucia suffers from splendid delusions of grandeur and personal prestige. Driven by demons of revenge, Elisabeth always acts impulsively, and therefore every revelation of her meanness allows Lucia, the consummate actress, to kill her ally with a sickening kindness. In his insightful Introduction Keith Carabine shows that these books are excruciatingly funny because Benson, like Jane Austen, invites the reader to view the world through the self-deluded chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth and through the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia. Carabine also concentrates on the novels’ disturbing, bitchy, ‘camp’ humour whenever ‘that horrid thing which Freud calls sex is raised’Country/Region of Manufacture: GBAuthor: E.F. BensonContributor: Keith Carabine (Introduction by), Keith Carabine (Series edited by)Genre: FictionBook Series: Wordsworth ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Complete Mapp & Lucia
Publication Name: The Complete Mapp & Lucia
Title: The Complete Mapp & Lucia
EAN: 9781840226744
ISBN: 9781840226744
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 04/05/2011
Release Year: 2011
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 34mm
Item Weight: 413g
Language: English
Subtitle: Volume Two
ISBN-10: 1840226749
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Author: E.F. Benson
Contributor: Keith Carabine (Series edited by)
Genre: Fiction
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Topic: Classic Fiction
