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Queen Lucia

Queen Lucia

Queen Lucia

E. F. Benson / EFBenson

29,00 €
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Editorial:
Standard Publications
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781438509631
29,00 €
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Queen Lucia is a humorous delightful book. E F Benson was a 19th century English biographer, novelist, short story writer, and memoirist. Benson wrote several ghost stories. His Mapp and Lucia series is his best known work. Lucia’s supremacy as the social and cultural queen of an English village is challenged when one friend discovers an Indian guru and begins yoga lessons. Olga, a beautiful diva, comes to challenge Lucia’s rule over the gentry of Riseholme. Lucia’s ego is challenged by the guru who is a fraud and her Italian which is also fraudulent.

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