Books with author Charles Lawton

Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb, illustrated by Frank Godwin, J. C. Winston, Pub., Chicago, 1924, 323 pages. Description; green boards with gold title and publisher's name on spine, pastedown illustration on front board. Twelve interior full page illustrations, the frontispiece and three others are full color, eight are black and white. Condition; Very good. Bright and tight with no interior writing and a bright cover on the boards. Spine is not sunned but the gold has lost its luster and there are several hand soiling marks along the edge. The front pastedown is lifting and is creased on the upper front corner, light rubbing to the edges, lower point starting but still a strong, straight book. No DJ.

The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb - CLASSIC GREEK MYTHOLOGY - This work is designed as a supplement to the Adventures of Telemachus. It treats of the conduct and sufferings of Ulysses, the father of Telemachus. The picture which it exhibits is that of a brave man struggling with adversity; by a wise use of events, and with an inimitable presence of mind under difficulties, forcing out a way for himself through the severest trials to which human life can be exposed; with enemies natural and preternatural surrounding him on all sides. The agents in this tale, besides men and women, are giants, enchanters, sirens: things which denote external force or internal temptations, the twofold danger which a wise fortitude must expect to encounter in its course through this world. The fictions contained in it will be found to comprehend some of the most admired inventions of Grecian mythology. The groundwork of the story is as old as the Odyssey, but the moral and the coloring are comparatively modern. By avoiding the prolixity which marks the speeches and the descriptions in Homer, I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers, though I am sensible that by the curtailment I have sacrificed in many places the manners to the passion, the subordinate characteristics to the essential interest of the story. The attempt is not to be considered as seeking a comparison with any of the direct translations of the Odyssey, either in prose or verse, though if I were to state the obligations which I have had to one obsolete version, [Footnote: The translation of Homer by Chapman in the reign of James I.] I should run the hazard of depriving myself of the very slender degree of reputation which I could hope to acquire from a trifle like the present undertaking.

It is one of the representative works of Charles Lamb. The essays of Charles Lamb are featured with delicate writing, sincere feeling and are interesting and charming. The book collects 28 essays, they are: 01. The South-Sea House 02. Oxford In The Vacation 03. Christ's Hospital Five-And-Thirty Years Ago 04. The Two Races Of Men 05. New Year's Eve 06. Mrs Battle's Opinions On Whist 07. A Chapter On Ears 08. All Fools' Day 09. A Quakers' Meeting 10. The Old and The New Schoolmaster 11. Valentine's Day 12. Imperfect Sympathies 13. Witches And Other Night-Fears 14. My Relations 15. Mackery End, In Hertfordshire 16. Modern Gallantry 17. The Old Benchers Of The Inner Temple 18. Grace Before Meat 19. My First Play 20. Dream-Children; A Reverie 21. Distant Correspondents 22. The Praise Of Chimney-Sweepers 23. A Complaint Of The Decay Of Beggars In The Metropolis 24. A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig 25. A Bachelor's Complaint Of the Behaviour Of Married People 26. On Some Of The Old Actors 27. On The Artificial Comedy Of The Last Century 28. On The Acting Of Munden

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