The complete online text of A Wanderer in Venice by E. V. Lucas.

E. V. Lucas was taught to swim by George Bernard Shaw, heard James Barrie reading Peter Pan while it was still in manuscript, and knew virtually everyone in the London literary and publishing worlds in the first third of the twentieth century. He was a p...

Though he was an immensely prolific writer, the range of E. V. Lucas's sensibility was actually rather narrow. His work as an essayist and a novelist is charming but lightweight; his essays perhaps mark the end of the bellelettristic tradition in England...

For nearly fifty years E. V. Lucas was one of the most accomplished and respected literary men in London. As an author of books, a journalist, an editor, a bookman, and a publisher's reader, he knew nearly all of the leading English writers of his time,...

VENICE Marino Faliero marked Donizetti's Paris debut, which took place in 1835, not long after the premiere of Bellini's I Puritant, with which it shared a stellar cast. Marino Faliero did not match Puritani's success, but it was appreciated by the exiled republican...

THIS is Venice. "Help! The population is shrinking!" It is full of French writers, though. Only 70,000 residents now live in the "historic centre." And historic it is. It is a challenge to find a cinema or a grocery store here; all the...