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Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine (And:) The Last Essays of Elia. Being a sequel to essays published under that name by Lamb, Charles and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk.Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his unforgettable, entertaining Elia essays in the London Magazine in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a book-length collection was published in 1823. Inventing the persona of Elia allowed Lamb to be shockingly honest and to gain a playful distance for self-examination.Page 1, Essays of Elia, The - Charles Lamb THE ESSAYS OF ELIA by Charles Lamb CONTENTS CONTENTS The South-Sea House Oxford in the Vacation Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago The Two Races of Men New Year's Eve Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist A Chapter on Ears All Fools' Day A Quakers' Meeting The Old and the New Schoolmaster Imperfect.
Buy Essays Of Elia by Lamb, Charles from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.Charles Lamb 1775-1834 (Also wrote under the pseudonym Elia) English essayist, critic, poet, dramatist, and novelist. The following entry presents criticism on Lamb from 1984 through 1998.
Published under the pseudonym Elia, Charles Lamb s book, by turns witty, insightful, self deprecating, and philosophical, offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt Published in The London Magazine in the early 1820s, these often nostalgic essays are important documents in the dPublished under the.
