Selected Prose
$44.80
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2013
Summary
This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers.
These pieces include early discussions of Hogarth and Shakespeare; masterly essays written under the pen-name ‘Elia’ that range over such subjects as drunkenness, witches, dreams, marriage and the joy of roast pig; and letters to Lamb’s circle of contemporaries, among them Samuel Taylor Col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392912 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141392916 |
| Author: | Charles Lamb |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) is best known for his Essays of Elia. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he shared a lifelong friendship. Lamb never achieved the same literary success as his friends but his influence on the English essay form cannot be underestimated and his book, Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets is remembered for popularising the work of Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
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