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Title: Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson, Nancy Mitford ISBN: 1-55921-232-2 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A hilarious society war of ladies
Comment: I cannot say enough about this adaptation. Prunella Scales produces the voices excellently. For those who do not know Lucia and Mapp - They are Elizabeth mapp and Emmeline Lucas - two ladies whom both consider themselves social queens of the village of Tilling. The ensuing war includes Fete's garden parties dinner parties and climaxes with the crafty Miss mapp attempting to steal the recipe for Lobster ala Reisholme and being caught by Lucia, they are then caught in a flood and whisked out to sea on a kitchen table - it's hilarious when listened to. The conflicts between these two are scarier than Snipes and Stallone in full flow.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best of the series
Comment: This is the highlight of the series, pitting Lucia against her less able, but equally ruthless counterpart, Elizabeth Mapp - two ladies who both consider themselves social queens of the village of Tilling. The ensuing war includes Fete's garden parties dinner parties and climaxes with the crafty Miss Mapp attempting to steal the recipe for Lobster ala Reisholme and being caught by Lucia, they are then caught in a flood and whisked out to sea on a kitchen table. Oh my!
Rating: 5
Summary: Heaven help my credit card...
Comment: Oover the last fifteen years I have been meaning to read certain authors. H.E. Bates, Anthony Trollope, P.G. Wodehouse, E.F. Benson and the like.
Last week I succumbed to a nasty bout of influenza and E.F. Benson. I had grabbed the slender volume of "Mapp & Lucia" from the library shelf and it had rested in my bookcase for almost a week. Not wanting to dull my brain with endless hours of television, I cracked open "Mapp & Lucia".
Ten pages into the book and I was hooked. Lucia, her period of mourning almost over is looking to regain her iron control on her hometown. First action, regain her star role as Queen Elizabeth in the village fete.
As I read Lucia's plots and plans, a strange thought hit me. Lucia is the creature Hyacinth Bucket (the main character of the BBC's Keeping Up Appearances) secretly dreams of being. Having taken over the fete from her dazed and confused friend, Lucia goes onto greater pastures, the hometown of Miss Elizabeth Mapp, reigning social goddesss.
Miss Elizabeth Mapp (known as Mapp) plots with her friends to rent out their respective homes a profit. Lucia and her best friend (a gentleman who brings to mind a cross between KUA's Richard and AYBS Mr Humphries) move and slowly begin to take over the town. Mapp is not pleased and a genteel war of one-upsmanship begins between the two ladies.
Drawings are rejected from the art exhibit, parties given, ownership of produce and fruit desputed with the poor town in the middle. Matters come to a head on Boxing Day (December 26) when Mapp decides to steal a longed for recipe that Lucia refuses to give to her.
Lucia stumbles on her rival in the kitchen and both women are swept out to sea on Lucia's kitchen table (yes, Lucia's kitchen table, this is a not a mis-type). The town mourns the two ladies as lost and the Great War of Mapp-Lucia as over.
Okay, enough said. You'll have to succumb to the collective charms of the ladies Mapp and Lucia yourself and find out all the bits I've left out. Now, I'm off hunt down and read the rest of E.F. Benson's wonderful books.
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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: Lucia in London : A Novel by E. F. Benson, Micheàl MacLiammóir ISBN: 1559212772 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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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: Queen Lucia: A Novel by E. F. Benson ISBN: 1559212527 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Miss Mapp by E. F. Benson, E.F. Benson ISBN: 1559212756 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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