Miss Mapp by E. F. Benson
"Miss Mapp" by E. F. Benson is a comic novel written in 1922. Set in the fictional coastal town of Tilling, it follows Miss Elizabeth Mapp, a tyrannical spinster who presides over her small community from her window perch, spying on neighbors and orchestrating social dominance. Through petty rivalries over dress-making, bridge games, and daylight saving time, Benson crafts a witty portrait of idle 1920s society where gossip reigns supreme and everyday
squabbles become epic battles for power. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940 |
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| Title | Miss Mapp |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Mapp |
| Credits |
Produced by Malcolm Farmer, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women -- England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mapp, Miss (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 25919 |
| Release Date | Jun 28, 2008 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 24, 2016 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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