Miss Mapp
Unknown
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Description
E. F. Benson sets a comedy of spying and spite in a small English town, with Miss Elizabeth Mapp at its center. Mapp, perhaps forty and glad to seem a year or two older, has a face of high color ridged by chronic rage and curiosity. Those very emotions keep her young and on the boil, and from her garden room window she watches the street that runs down to the High Street like a bird of prey.
The town buzzes with golf, duels that may not be duels, and gossip scraped like crab shells at tea. Diva argues no duel could fit with a full round of golf, since no nerves could stand both. Captain Puffin and the Major finish their match on the eighteenth hole while talk swirls. Benson writes of Tilling's wars of manners with wit sharp as Mapp's own tongue.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 489 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |