- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy "The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album" for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Lucia Rising
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Lucia Rising: Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp (Including the Male Impersonator), Lucia in London for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Product Description
Product Description
Three of Benson's Lucia stories. "Queen Lucia" was published in 1920, "Miss Mapp" in 1922 and "Lucia in London" in 1927. They are much-loved novels of provincial snobbery and became a successful television series.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
Though the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Though the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Once read, EF Benson's 6 books about Lucia and Miss Mapp can never be forgotten. Set in a small town the characters are almost without execption fatally flawed. Despite the characters malevolent obsession with gossip, scandal and one-up-manship it is impossible not to identify with them. One of the only writers that makes me laugh out loud. Everyone who I've forced to read them has loved them.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After waiting far too long after a friends recommendation, I borrowed Lucia Rising from the library, swiftly followed by the accompanying Lucia Vitrix. Ever since I have been searching for copies to own myself, and fear the day these gems may go out of print! Lucia, Mapp and dear Georgino are vividly realistic, and absolutely delicious characters, made up of elements we can recognise in ourselves (reluctantly!) and our neighbours even today. It seems an inaccuracy to term these novels "light fiction" - the comedy is beautifully constructed, and is just as satisfying a second time around. Here's looking forward to the third!
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
About ten years ago a friend, in a postcard, suggested that if I was short of something to read I should pick up a copy of Queen Lucia. I ignored his advice at the time, until the aforementioned postcard was discovered at the bottom of a box under the bed several months ago. So began a love affair with one of the most enjoyable and entertaining series of books I've read. From Daisy Quantock's guru to Diva Plaistow's sardine tartlets (an eighteenpenny tea for me, I think) every chapter is a gem. At the end of 'Trouble For Lucia' - the last of the series - it was quite painful having to say 'au reservoir' to the most scheming, snobbish, shallow, narrow-minded, tarsome, adorable bunch of friends that I have ever had the pleasure of sitting down to a nice rubber of bridge with.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
My ONE book
If I could have only one book for my desert island, it would be this volume of E. F. Benson's collected stories/novels of Miss Mapp and Lucia. Read more
Published 10 months ago by DixieAl
Small town matters
Wonderful, period tale of nothing much happening in a small village where everyone knows everyone else's business. Extremely funny and much better than the DVD.
Published 22 months ago by Rosy Egg
Time for un po' di Lucia
Cult books whose place in the pantheon becomes even more assured every year. An absolute joy: masterpieces of English comic fiction. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2001
Once read never forgotten!
Entering the world of Tilling and sharing the daily escapades of Mapp and Lucia was a wonderfull journey back to yesteryear for me. Read more
Published on 25 April 2000
A delight
Nothing more to say. These novels are a joy from beginning to end. If you are a fan of P.G.Wodehouse (and if you're not, you should be), then you'll adore these.
Published on 30 Mar 2000
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
