Books with title The Essays of Elia and Eliana

Charles Lamb was considered the most delightful of English essayists in the middle of the 19th century. Essays of Elia is a collection of his finest work. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

father survived but a few montlis; a sister of his who had formed one of the family died about the same time. Thus Charles and Mary, who had meantime recovered her reason, were left practically alone in the world; for their brother John held aloof, desiring that Mary should remain in the asylum. Charles had had an attack of insanity in the winter of 1795-6; it was, perhaps, in consequence of this, and the care of his sister, that he gave up the idea of marrying the Anna of his sonnets. He had no return of the madness, bui Mary had frequent relapses, the approach of which she felt in time to enable her to retire to the lunatic asylum. It was in 1796 that Lamb first appeared as an author, when four sonnets by him were published in a volume of Coleridge spoems. Lamb's sfirst attempt in prose, exclusive of letters, was the tale of Rosamund Gray (1798), incongruous and improbable, showing the authors weakness in narrative, but exhibiting the pathos, quaintness of description and appropriateness of quotation which form the excellence of the Essays of Elia. Of it Shelley wrote: "What a lovely thing is his Rosamund Gray! How much knowledge of the sweetest and deepest part of our nature is in it!" In the same year he wrote what is perhaps the best known of his poems, the first stanza of which he afterwards omitted - "Where are they gone, the old familiar faces? I had a mother, but she died and left me - Died prematurely in a day of horrors - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces." For the first seventeen years of the present century, Charles and Mary Lamb resided within the precincts of the Temple; first in Mitre Court Buildings, then in Inner Temple Lane. At the beginning of this period, Charles was employed as an occasional writer of trifles for newspapers, but he soon attempted more ambitious work. Rosamund Gray had shown that he was defective in the qualities which

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The following computer-generated description may contain errors and does not represent the quality of the book.The Essays of Elia, most of which were contributed to the London Magazine, were first published in book form in 1823, and the Last Essays of Elia followed in 1833. The chief alterations Charles Lamb made in his prose writings were in the way of excision. His Essays, when republished in a collected form, were carefully, even ruthlessly, relieved of all redundancies. Some passages, however, were evidently withdrawn for purely personal reasons, and these are restored in the present edition, with a few characteristic notes, which, although they may have seemed to Lamb too trifling to stand in his collected Essays, will be extremely interesting to every lover of Elia. The other suppressed passages have, as a rule, been given in the Appendix. Almost the only exception is in the Essay on Books and Reading. To these Detached Thoughts (as they really are) have been restored some passages of biographical rather than literary value. In every case the restored passages have been enclosed in brackets. The section entitled Eliana consists of papers contributed to various magazines and miscellanies, which were collected by J.E. Babson in 1864.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally-enhance the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.Tags: time day essay friend life poor house think sir world eye place person face till mind character look half seen

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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