Project Gutenberg 2025-06-20 Public domain in the USA. 155 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall) 1868 1938 Lucas, Edward Verrall Lucas, E.V. 08028632 Over Bemerton's : $b An easy-going chronicle $aNew York :$bThe Macmillan Company, $c1908. Al Haines "Over Bemerton's : An easy-going chronicle" by E. V. Lucas is a novel written in the early 20th century. It is a mellow, observant London chronicle following a middle‑aged returnee who settles above a second‑hand bookshop in Westminster and drifts into a web of friendships, family ties, and bookish pleasures. The tone is gently comic and reflective, with vignettes of city life and character study at its heart, especially the narrator Kent Falconer, his capable stepsister Naomi, the bookseller Mr. Bemerton, the voluble landlady Mrs. Duckie, and a caustic journalist, Mr. Dabney. The opening of the chronicle finds Kent Falconer back from long exile, seeking quiet rooms near Queen Anne’s Gate; Naomi steers him to a flat over Bemerton’s bookshop, complete with a formidable landlady and the promise of midnight reading. A chance “for luck” purchase yields a Chinese biographical dictionary that becomes his delight, while a brisk tour introduces his Queen Anne’s Gate household—level‑headed Naomi, opinionated Drusilla, brothers Frank and Lionel, and the ornamental family friend Dollie. Falconer roams a changed London, contrasts hansoms with motor cabs, and savors book‑lover riches, even as he sketches the Duckie clan (including music‑hall star Alf Pinto, dresser Beatrice, and boy Ern) and the shabby waterman at the pub corner. Mr. Dabney of The Balance arrives to rail at new journalism and hedonism, prompting a debate on what might cure the age; Mr. Bemerton grants the narrator nocturnal access to his shelves, revealing a quiet world of cataloguers and literary anecdotes, a hint of an old flame named Miss Gold, and, finally, the narrator’s rapt return to cricket and memories of W. G. Grace. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/overbemertonseas00lucaiala 20250611142837lucas 1908 US Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Middle-aged men -- Fiction London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction PR Text Category: Novels Category: British Literature 427170 2025-07-30T07:46:30.240532 text/html 404653 2025-06-20T17:48:22 text/html 248684 2025-07-30T07:46:35.502484 application/epub+zip 254963 2025-07-30T07:46:31.067478 application/epub+zip 233603 2025-07-30T07:46:30.661498 application/epub+zip 366430 2025-07-30T07:46:38.978432 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 354215 2025-07-30T07:46:35.097482 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 394068 2025-07-30T07:46:29.242487 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 374347 2025-06-20T17:48:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14063 2025-07-30T07:46:39.116442 application/rdf+xml 9924 2025-07-30T07:46:30.760499 image/jpeg 1625 2025-07-30T07:46:30.710472 image/jpeg 420883 2025-07-30T07:46:30.278545 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