Wordsworth classics 1 the complete mapp lucia volume one

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Lucia is one of the great comic characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, ‘as by right divine’ rules over the toy kingdom of ‘Riseholme’ based on the Cotswold village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is ‘her prince-consort’, the outrageously camp Georgie is her ‘gentleman-in-waiting’, the village green is her ‘parliament’, and her subjects, such as Daisy Quantock, are hapless would-be ‘Bolsheviks’. In Lucia in London, the prudish, manically ambitious Lucia launches herself into the louche world of London society. Her earnest determination to learn all about ‘modern movements’ makes her the perfect comic vehicle for Benson’s free-wheeling satire of salon society, and of the dominant fads and movements of the 1920s, including vegetarianism, yoga, palmistry, Freudianism, séances, Post-Impressionist art and Christian Science. Meanwhile in Tilling, clearly modelled on Benson’s home town of Rye, Miss Mapp consumed by ‘chronic rage and curiosity’ sits at her window, armed with her light-opera glasses keeping baleful watch on her neighbours. ‘Anger and the gravest suspicions about everybody had kept her young and on the boil’: and Benson transmutes her boiling into a series of small humiliations in his witty, malicious comedy. 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 fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia and the self-deluded chronic anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth. Carabine also concentrates on the novels’ disturbing, bitchy, ‘camp’ humour whenever ‘that horrid thing which Freud calls sex’ is raised.

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Complete Mapp & Lucia

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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 with an introduction and notes by dr keith carabine university of kent at canterbury these three wonderful comic novels drolly re Voor 23:59 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Complete Mapp & Lucia

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Outrageously pretentious hypocritical and snobbish queen lucia as by right divine rules over the toy kingdom of riseholme based on the cotswold village of broadway her long suffering husband pepino is her prince consort the outrageously camp georgie is her gentleman in waiting and the Uiterlijk 23 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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Emily inglethorp the rich mistress of styles court manor is found dead poisoned hercule poirot is called upon to investigate the death by captain hastings who is a guest at the manor though a retired detective poirot steps in to unravel the truth who could have killed her and why the husba Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 oktober 2014

Aantal pagina's: 640

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: E.F. Benson

Tweede Auteur: Keith Carabine

Hoofdredacteur: Dr Keith Carabine

Hoofduitgeverij: Wordsworth Editions

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Verpakking breedte: 128 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 40 mm

Verpakking lengte: 202 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 395 g

EAN: 9781848706071

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