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Great fun, a real treat.
Who knew the goings-on of a small village could be so titillating! Thrilling! Outrageous! Scintillating! Loved it.
Delightful story of two women vying for supreme society head. All the other characters wonderfully add to the entire scene. Two women floating out to sea on a table is such a stitch!! Gotta read it. I loved it so much I watched the series on Netflix.
An excellent, comic view of small town life that shows even the protagonist in a realistic, unflattering light. Full of laughs!
I LOVE LUCIA! (see Lucia Rising review)
This volume contains three of the novels - Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia – by E.F. Benson takes the reader to the gossipy and snobby upper-middle England of the 20s and 30s. The humorous incidents that happen when Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp battle for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling will leave you glowing with the ultimate delight of reading a sparkling satire.
Not as good as Volume 1. Lucia actually became a little irritating by the end of this.
I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/11358862
Read my other review of "Lucia Rising" first...In this volume of the final three books, Lucia meets her nemesis, Miss Elizabeth Mapp, and the desperate battle to become the queen bee of Tilling begins. The sneaky tricks, hypocrisies, double-dealings and back-handedness are fabulous. Meanwhile, Georgie decides to dye his beard with unfortunate results.) And in the final book, Miss Mapp and Lucia find themselves literally adrift!
Witty, sparkling social comedy. It is a period piece but not at all dated. I guess that makes it a classic.
laughed myself silly .....loved it and wish I could find more books by EF Benson
Deliciously funny......Mapp is truly awful!
Multiple stories of Lucia, the reigning queen of her social circle and Mapp, the busybody, manipulative woman in her small town. At a point, these two headstrong women end up living in the same town where they each work to be Queen Bee. The passive aggressive manipulation is a little tiring. This book may best be read in short bursts.
Hilarious. Comedy of manners set in deliciously snobby, gossipy, upper-middle class England of the 20s/30s
An excellent read. Would definitely recommend.
This book positively glistens with sharp endlessly quotable dialogue and elegant fun. Excellent. Excellent.
Three good stories, but rather similar. Best broken up with other stuff.
I read the first of the three books contained in this anthology some time ago and found its treatment of petty squabbles and snobberies in an upper-middle class England of the 20s & 30s very entertaining. I didn't re-read it this time round, it still being fairly clear in my memory, but, as the titles imply, silly Lucia triumphs in the second and has problems to overcome, many of her own making, in the third.Reading these makes me wonder what little things that are of such vital importance to us...
LOVED IT!
I enjoyed this book. E.F.Benson is/was a master storyteller and as each social contretemps built up there were times when I just had to stop reading as I could see no way out of the forthcoming disaster. But always Lucia would be quite unconcerned and with a few deft moves, or no moves at all, the whole thing would reverse it self and Mapp would be discomfited yet again. The last book of this collection of three is "Trouble for Lucia" published in 1939 and there are occasional references to trou...
