Lucia Victrix

by E.F. Benson and Annabeth Albert

"Mapp & Lucia" first published in 1935. "Lucia's progress" first published 1935. "Trouble for Lucia" first published in 1939. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140119639
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.4" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Scheming, social-climbing, one-upsmanship... The stuff of life?

Lucia Victrix is not a novel in itself; it's the compilation of the 4th, 5th and 6th Lucia novels. The first compilation (novels 1 - 3) is called Lucia Rising. Maybe I'm a dope; it took me a while to figure this out! My grandmother and mother have always raved about "the Lucia novels" and reread them again and again. Naturally, I was curious! Rather than Austen, I'd compare these to a very gentle version of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves novels. Same time period, same class system, same loony characters. I found that I devoured the first three, but trying to read all six in succession? It began to get a little overwhelming... For one thing, Lucia and Mapp, the principal characters, are simply not nice people. Yes, their endless schemes to best each other are amusing, but after hundreds and hundreds of pages their actual characters are no more developed than they were in the first chapters. Having said this, it's an authentic picture of a time and place, and I found myself wishing I could spend an evening with these people (not much more!)