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I am giddy about the books that came into my house last week: The Complete Mapp and Lucia, in two volumes, by E.F. Benson.
Until a friend raved about their camp humor and vintage charm, I'd never heard of these six novels. Written between 1920 and 1939, they record the battles between Elisabeth Mapp and her rival Lucia in the fictional English village of Tilling. There have been a couple of British television adaptations, but I haven't seen them.
These omnibus editions contain all six novels: Queen Lucia (1920), Miss Mapp (1922), Lucia in London (1927), Mapp and Lucia (1931), Lucia's Progress (1935) (published in the U.S. as The Worshipful Lucia), and Trouble for Lucia (1939).