"Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp" by E. F. Benson (Nook / ePub Edition) - Preview Available

Click Here to See Preview Queen Lucia:Queen of a salon anacronisms, in a neo-Elizabethan village, dispenser of certified culture, stopping at nothing to insure her prestige, lisping profundities in baby talk and sparse but sonorous Italian to her favored satellites; that is the central figure in this delightfully witty take-off of one of those elaborately self-conscious communities, where a nice balance of sentimentality and credulity so easily pass for the soulful. & Miss Mapp:From the bow window of her garden room which commanded an excellent view of her street and her neighbors, the ill-natured and inquisitive Miss Mapp observed the High Street of Tilling and the social movements of her neighbors, sometimes supplementing her view by observations from her roof with a pair of binoculars. From her window she planned the strategy of her spiteful campaigns and watched with a special vigilance the doings of her two bachelor neighbors, Major Flint and Captain Puffin. The story is satir