Project Gutenberg 2025-05-24 Public domain in the USA. 178 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall) 1868 1938 Lucas, Edward Verrall Lucas, E.V. London Lavender : $b An entertainment $aNew York :$bThe Macmillan Company, $c1912. Al Haines "London Lavender : An entertainment" by E. V. Lucas is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Kent Falconer and his wife Naomi as they set up house in Primrose Terrace near Regent’s Park, meeting an assortment of London characters and observing city life with gentle wit. Through domestic episodes, Zoo visits, folk songs, and neighbors’ intrigues, the book offers a string of comic-sympathetic portraits and social asides rather than a single driving plot. The opening of the novel shows Kent and Naomi leaving his old rooms for a new lodging near Regent’s Park, run by the refined but fussy Packer twins and aided by Mrs. Wiles, whose husband is head keeper of the ape house at the Zoo. Kent befriends the Wileses (and an orangutan named Barbara), sketches his daily Zoo rounds, and, at Naomi’s urging to find useful work, becomes honorary secretary to a folk-song society—pausing to celebrate the freshness of old English tunes and to insert a poignant tale about a device that replays past telephone calls to a grieving lover. Their fellow lodgers emerge: the impulsively kind Mr. Lacey (who defends a one‑legged organ‑grinder), a cinema man, a mysterious recluse, and a fastidious young Socialist; Kent also endures a smoky political salon where a party fixer holds forth. A windfall inheritance then jolts the Wileses into uneasy “gentility,” souring their simple contentment, while the top-floor Socialist outlines his school talks aimed at awakening privileged boys to the labor that underpins their comfort. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/londonlavenderen00luca/mode/2up 20250518101043lucas 1912 US Reading ease score: 79.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Humorous stories London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction PR Text Category: Humour Category: Novels Category: British Literature 446668 2025-07-30T06:55:31.588792 text/html 423566 2025-05-23T23:22:16 text/html 1290988 2025-07-30T06:55:37.234781 application/epub+zip 1296589 2025-07-30T06:55:32.485889 application/epub+zip 237487 2025-07-30T06:55:32.018787 application/epub+zip 1414033 2025-07-30T06:55:40.749765 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1397623 2025-07-30T06:55:36.785801 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 413838 2025-07-30T06:55:30.534832 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 394125 2025-05-23T23:22:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14009 2025-07-30T06:55:40.894743 application/rdf+xml 12934 2025-07-30T06:55:32.112795 image/jpeg 1918 2025-07-30T06:55:32.064797 image/jpeg 2174905 2025-07-30T06:55:31.667799 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia