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E. V. Lucas (1868–1938)

Auteur de What a Life!

144+ oeuvres 736 utilisateurs 17 critiques

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Crédit image: E. V. Lucas, c.1905.

Œuvres de E. V. Lucas

What a Life! (1911) 44 exemplaires
The Open Road (1899) 39 exemplaires
A Wanderer in London (1906) 38 exemplaires
Highways and Byways in Sussex (1904) 32 exemplaires
A wanderer in Paris (1910) 32 exemplaires
A Wanderer in Venice (1914) 31 exemplaires
A Book of Verses for Children (1897) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
A Wanderer in Florence (1912) 27 exemplaires
A Wanderer in Holland (1910) 21 exemplaires
London Revisited (1926) 17 exemplaires
Over Bemerton's (1908) 14 exemplaires
The life of Charles Lamb (1905) 13 exemplaires
The Gentlest Art (1908) 11 exemplaires
The Slowcoach (1910) 11 exemplaires
London Lavender (1912) 11 exemplaires
Cricket all his life (1950) 10 exemplaires
Cloud and Silver (1916) 9 exemplaires
Into the Lagoon 8 exemplaires
The War of the Wenuses (1898) — Auteur — 7 exemplaires
A Wanderer Among Pictures (1924) 7 exemplaires
One Day and Another (1909) 7 exemplaires
Mr. Ingleside (1910) 7 exemplaires
London afresh (1936) 7 exemplaires
Roving East and Roving West (2009) 6 exemplaires
Post-bag diversions 6 exemplaires
Old Lamps for New (1916) 6 exemplaires
Rembrandt 6 exemplaires
Forgotten Tales of Long Ago (2007) 6 exemplaires
Landmarks (1916) 5 exemplaires
Playtime & Company (1925) 5 exemplaires
The Colvins and their friends (1928) 5 exemplaires
Introducing London (1925) 5 exemplaires
Vermeer of Delft (1922) 5 exemplaires
A Boswell of Baghdad (1917) 5 exemplaires
A little of everything (1912) 5 exemplaires
A Wanderer in Rome (1932) 5 exemplaires
Her Infinite Variety 5 exemplaires
The Book of Shops (1990) 4 exemplaires
Some Friends of Mine (1909) 4 exemplaires
Selected Essays Of E. V. Lucas (1979) 4 exemplaires
Adventures and Enthusiasms (2011) 4 exemplaires
The old contemporaries 4 exemplaires
Charles Lamb and the Lloyds (1898) 4 exemplaires
Giorgione by E.V. Lucas (1926) 3 exemplaires
A hundred years of Trent Bridge (1938) 3 exemplaires
A fronded isle, and other essays (1928) 3 exemplaires
The ladies’ pageant (2010) 3 exemplaires
The Vermilion Box (1921) 3 exemplaires
Variety Lane (1916) 3 exemplaires
Pleasure trove (1935) 3 exemplaires
Old Fashioned Tales (2010) 3 exemplaires
Harvest home (1913) 2 exemplaires
Character and Comedy 2 exemplaires
Advisory Ben 2 exemplaires
Van Dyck 2 exemplaires
The Visit to London (1902) 2 exemplaires
Events and embroideries (1926) 2 exemplaires
Fireside and Sunshine (1977) 2 exemplaires
Only The Other Day (1937) 2 exemplaires
Rose and rose 2 exemplaires
Windfall's eve: an entertainment (1929) 2 exemplaires
ADVENTURES AND MISGIVINGS (1938) 2 exemplaires
Genevra's money 1 exemplaire
Charles Lamb 1 exemplaire
The Gentlest Art 1 exemplaire
A wanderer in Rome 1 exemplaire
A Swan And Her Friends (1907) (2010) 1 exemplaire
E. V. Lucas's London 1 exemplaire
The visit to London 1 exemplaire
Another Book of Verses for Children — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
West Sussex 1 exemplaire
Encounters and diversions (1972) 1 exemplaire
The Debt 1 exemplaire
Saunterer's rewards (1934) 1 exemplaire
A group of Londoners 1 exemplaire
A Rover I Would Be; 1 exemplaire
Wisdom While You Wait (1903) 1 exemplaire
Urbanities: essays new and old (1921) 1 exemplaire
French Leaves (1931) 1 exemplaire
Velasquez 1 exemplaire
As the bee sucks 1 exemplaire
Frans Hals 1 exemplaire
The Best Of Lamb (1961) 1 exemplaire

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Bevis (1882) — Introduction, quelques éditions165 exemplaires
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A Century of Humour (1934) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
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WILLIAM COWPER'S LETTERS, A SELECTION (1911) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions7 exemplaires
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Into the Lagoon by E V Lucas – OLD SCHOOL PRESS 2021 à Fine Press Forum (Décembre 2021)

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Rather feeble parodies of moralising children’s rhymes, produced as propaganda at a point when the British expected to give Germany a bloody nose by Christmas. In retrospect rather distasteful. Some of the references would be lost on a child but the humour is hardly sophisticated enough to amuse an adult.
 
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AgedPeasant | Dec 6, 2023 |
$8. Numerous illustrations of historical art. beautiful book. 1924
 
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susangeib | Sep 23, 2023 |
BS initials as decorator
 
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MarthaSpeirs | 1 autre critique | Feb 25, 2023 |
"My wife, in a nickel-plated Russian blouse, trimmed with celluloid pompons, aluminium pantaloons, and a pair of Norwegian Skis, looked magnificent."

That was stupid.. like Spaceballs levels of dumb... it was kinda awesome :) . So a parody of War of the Worlds that came out only weeks/months after the original book.

"My terror had fallen from me like a bath towel."

Highly recommend reading this as close to War of the Worlds as possible. Even so 100 year old comedy isn't always easy to parse.
There's some odd word choices too, it spends a lot of time describing streetnames and stuff which i think are digs at the original.
It breaks the forth wall and does allsorts of absurd parody elements. Its pretty short, certainly worth a look for fans of War of the Worlds.

"I stood there ecstatic, unprogressive, immoderate; while swiftly and surely ungovernable affection for all Wenuses gripped me."

Edit: Made available by the Merril Collection.
… (plus d'informations)
 
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wreade1872 | 1 autre critique | Nov 28, 2021 |

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