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Queen Lucia
It introduces Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, the self-appointed social queen of the fictional village of Riseholme, who dominates her community through affected culture and pretension.
"Queen Lucia" by E. F. Benson is a comic novel. It introduces Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, the self-appointed social queen of the fictional village of Riseholme, who dominates her community through affected culture and pretension.
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Though the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her. After those four hours in the train a short walk would be pleasant, but, though she veiled it from her conscious mind, another motive, sub-consciously engineered, prompted her action. It would, of course, be universally known to all her friends in Riseholme that she was arriving today by the 12.26, and at that hour the village street would be sure to be full of them. They would see the fly with luggage draw up at the door of The Hurst, and nobody except her maid would get out.
Contents
- 01Chapter One
- 02Chapter Two
- 03Chapter Three
- 04Chapter Four
- 05Chapter Five
- 06Chapter Six
- 07Chapter Seven
- 08Chapter Eight
- 09Chapter Nine
- 10Chapter Ten
- 11"O.b."
- 12Chapter Eleven
- 13Chapter Twelve
- 14Chapter Thirteen
- 15Chapter Fourteen
- 16Chapter Fifteen
- 17Chapter Sixteen
- 18Increase Your Height
About this edition
- Author
- E. F. Benson
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 257 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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