
This volume features the popuiar novels of "Queen Lucia" and "Miss Mapp" written by Edward Frederic Benson: "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 brisk feet, and sent on her...

E. F. Benson's beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. Benson's series revolves around two unforgettable characters, both forceful...

"Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp" collects together the first two novels of the "Mapp and Lucia" series by E. F. Benson, English novelist, short story writer, biographer, and archaeologist. In "Queen Lucia", first published in 1920, readers are introduced to the irrepressible Lucia...

