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Selected Prose (Penguin Classics) by Lamb, Charles; Phillips, Adam is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Selected Prose (Penguin Classics) about?
Overview: 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 Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Wryly amused by the world, allusive, searching and endlessly inventive, these are the essential works of a master of English prose.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lamb, Charles; Phillips, Adam
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141392912
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
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