Miss Mapp
Arch-schemer and social climber, Miss Mapp spends her days using opera glasses and a notebook to chart her neighbors' affairs. Among her interests are Major Benjamin Flint, whom she has been trying to marry for years.
Arch-schemer and social climber, Miss Mapp spends her days using opera glasses and a notebook to chart her neighbors' affairs. Among her interests are Major Benjamin Flint, whom she has been trying to marry for years.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781559212755 (1559212756)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Womens
Series: Lucia -6 (#2)
Ever since Summer-time had been inaugurated a few years before, it had been one of the chronic dissensions of Tilling. Miss Mapp, Diva and the Padre flatly refused to recognize it, except when they were going by train or tram, when principle must necessarily go to the wall, or they would never have ...
Love this a wonderful re-read
By the time you get to the end of one of these books it's all too much to bear even one paragraph more, so I'll take a breather before embarking on the next. Reading order:Queen Lucia (1920)Miss Mapp (1922)Lucia in London (1927)Mapp and Lucia (1931)Lucia's Progress (1935, also known as The Worshipfu...
Mapp and Lucia are hilarious creations. Because social-climbing and back-stabbing never get old.