false 95279 1559212772 9781559212779 109 12 Lucia in London http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171300603m/95279.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95279.Lucia_in_London 1035292 E.F. Benson 1619 190 5 0 false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 11:32:18 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 12:06:04 -0700 2009 tour de force of overt social climbing that earns her a society of Luciaphils, enthusiastic admirers of her naked audacity. In the course of contrasting city and country life, satirizing popular culture of the 1920s, as well as the encroachment of modernism on traditional aesthetics, a number of topics fly by - the music of "Stravinski" (in which the previously-unknown-to-me adjective "scrannel" gets used), "post-Cubism", Ouija board spiritualism etc - endlessly amusing in its way.

The description of Lucia's embrace of things she once disdained includes this summary of her former views on Stravinsky "...(music)she used to account sheer Bolshevism, producing these scrannel staccato tinklings that had so often made her wince."]]>