false <![CDATA[Queen Lucia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170538065m/60079.jpg 60079 19 "There is some irony in the fact that Benson, the creator of everything from plays to sober biographies, is best remembered for his series of LUCIA novels, delicious satires of the pretensions and foibles of provincial middle-class life in Britain in the 1920s and '30s. Still, given Benson's droll send-ups of the bitter battles waged by matrons desperate to live out their fantastical versions of upper-class elegance and wit, and his shrewd readings of the ways in which our longings can make us both bizarre and sometimes appealing, it's very likely an irony he would have savored. . . . Queen Lucia, the first in the series, follows Mrs. Lucas (Lucia to her most intimate friends) through a lengthy and often hilarious campaign to derail the career of a would-be rival to the throne of cultural arbiter. The plot, however, is less important than the pratfalls. The six Lucia novels form a kind of epic portrait of striving gone mod, and it's good to have them appearing once again." -- Kirkus 625940 1920 Queen Lucia total:185|5:83|4:54|3:38|2:9|1:1| 185 764 276 31 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981 Wed Aug 01 10:01:57 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 01 21:53:35 -0700 2008 absurdly delicious life can be.

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Queen Lucia (1920)
Miss Mapp (1922)
Lucia in London (1927)
Mapp and Lucia (1931)
Lucia's Progress (1935, also known as The Worshipful Lucia)
Trouble for Lucia (1939)

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