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A Wanderer in Venice by E. V. Lucas
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150 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2004
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Edward Verrall Lucas
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He was a versatile and popular English writer. His nearly 100 books demonstrate great facility with style, and are generally acknowledged as humorous by contemporary readers and critics. Some of his essays about the sport cricket are still considered among the best instructional material.He is remembered best for his essays and books about London and travel abroad; these books continue through many editions. He is particularly noted for his biography of Charles Lamb.
He was born in Eltham, Kent into a Quaker family, and educated at Friends Public School in Saffron Walden. He worked first in a Brighton bookshop and then on a Sussex newspaper followed by The Globe; rising without university education to the Punch magazine 'table' in 1904. He became a prolific writer, providing extensive content for Punch and a column "A wanderer's notebook" for the Sunday Times.
He was responsible for A. A. Milne teaming up with E. H. Shepard for the Winnie-the-Pooh books. He wrote under pen names EVL, VVV, E. D. Ward, and FF for film criticism. Some of his early work was in collaboration with Charles Larcom Graves (1856–1944), another Punch writer.
Rupert Hart-Davis collected and published a collection of his essays on cricket, Cricket All His Life, which John Arlott called "the best written of all books on cricket.
From 1924 he was chairman of the London publishers Methuen and Co.. According to R. G. G. Price's A History of Punch, his polished and gentlemanly essayist's persona concealed:
a cynical clubman … very bitter about men and politics … [with] the finest pornographic library in London.
He was a versatile and popular English writer. His nearly 100 books demonstrate great facility with style, and are generally acknowledged as humorous by contemporary readers and critics. Some of his essays about the sport cricket are still considered among the best instructional material.He is remembered best for his essays and books about London and travel abroad; these books continue through many editions. He is particularly noted for his biography of Charles Lamb.
He was born in Eltham, Kent into a Quaker family, and educated at Friends Public School in Saffron Walden. He worked first in a Brighton bookshop and then on a Sussex newspaper followed by The Globe; rising without university education to the Punch magazine 'table' in 1904. He became a prolific writer, providing extensive content for Punch and a column "A wanderer's notebook" for the Sunday Times.
He was responsible for A. A. Milne teaming up with E. H. Shepard for the Winnie-the-Pooh books. He wrote under pen names EVL, VVV, E. D. Ward, and FF for film criticism. Some of his early work was in collaboration with Charles Larcom Graves (1856–1944), another Punch writer.
Rupert Hart-Davis collected and published a collection of his essays on cricket, Cricket All His Life, which John Arlott called "the best written of all books on cricket.
From 1924 he was chairman of the London publishers Methuen and Co.. According to R. G. G. Price's A History of Punch, his polished and gentlemanly essayist's persona concealed:
a cynical clubman … very bitter about men and politics … [with] the finest pornographic library in London.
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June 9, 2019
Surely this is the extreme case of Twain recycling pieces from earlier collections?
December 4, 2012
In this collection, fans of Twain will surely enjoy reading his essays like "On The Decay of the Art of Lying," "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," and "Concerning the English Language," and "Speech on the Weather." While some of the other stories here are not great, it's worth reading every story here in order to understand just how gifted Twain is in my arenas of knowledge and how entertaining his anecdotes and observations on life can be. One hidden gem here that is a new read for me is his short story "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn," which imagines a society built on a deserted island that is descended from the rascals of the novel "Mutiny on the Bounty." Fun reads throughout this collection....Enjoy!
October 17, 2019
I may read this again sometime, with sparknotes. Mark Twain was good for writing in his vernacular, and there was some language that was lost on me.
March 20, 2022
Apparently I'm not a Mark Twain fan.
August 16, 2011
I added this to my nook after reading that the baroque/bluegrass band Punch Brothers took their name from the Mark Twain story "Punch, Brothers, Punch." The narrator of that story has read an advertising jingle (in this case a poem, not a bit of music) that he can't get out of his head; it plagues him as earworms like "it's a small world" have tortured some of us today.
At any rate, this is a short collection of stories and essays. Several are very good, all are worth reading - as a collection, though, it's average. You can find it via Project Gutenberg. And check out the Punch Brothers music.
At any rate, this is a short collection of stories and essays. Several are very good, all are worth reading - as a collection, though, it's average. You can find it via Project Gutenberg. And check out the Punch Brothers music.
May 31, 2011
Maybe I'm just getting tired of the same old thing. Just ok.
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