author
E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
1868–1938
A wonderfully versatile English man of letters, he wrote with warmth, wit, and an easy charm that made everyday life feel worth noticing. Best known for essays, travel writing, and literary work on Charles Lamb, he was one of the most readable popular authors of his time.
21 Audiobooks
The Slowcoach
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
Forgotten Tales of Long Ago
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Roving East and Roving West
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A Wanderer in Florence
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A Wanderer in Venice
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Verena in the Midst: A Kind of a Story
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Advisory Ben: A Story
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A Wanderer in Paris
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
The War of the Wenuses
by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A Wanderer in Holland
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Highways and Byways in Sussex
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Rose and Rose
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Old lamps for new
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Wisdom while you wait : Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
Adventures and Enthusiasms
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
London Lavender : An entertainment
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Anne's terrible good nature, and other stories for children
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Over Bemerton's : An easy-going chronicle
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
About the author
Born in 1868, Edward Verrall Lucas grew up in a Quaker family and began working young, first as a bookseller’s apprentice before moving into journalism. He went on to become an exceptionally prolific English writer: essayist, humorist, novelist, biographer, editor, playwright, poet, and travel writer.
Lucas was especially admired for light, graceful prose that felt companionable rather than grand. He wrote extensively about London and travel, contributed to Punch, and built a lasting reputation through familiar essays and literary books that balanced learning with friendliness.
He also became closely associated with Charles Lamb, editing and writing about Lamb’s work for a wide readership. By the time of his death in 1938, Lucas had produced around a hundred books and had established himself as a major popular literary figure of the late Victorian and early 20th-century period.