The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume 1

If you live in Riseholme, England, you are a minion of Lucia (pronounced the Italian way), the Queen of Art and Culture. She controls the social network and has raised the poor little town to a degree of culture it has never known before. Any social event MUST have Lucia play the first movement of T......more

Simply a delight of satire and fun. Who could not find the Lucia and Mapp books a joy to read and re-read? For once the TV adaptation was close to the books and the first from the BBC was by far the best with Geraldine McEwen and Prunella Scales as the protagonists.......more

I keep this book by my bed always. I've read it multiple times, and I feel like I know the characters as well as I know my neighbors. This volume contains Books 1-3 of the "Lucia" Stories. How to describe? One of the FUNNIEST books I've ever read, certainly. It relates the tales of Lucia, a self-imp......more