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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 j oy of roast pig/ and letters to Lamb's circle of contemporaries, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Wryly am used by ...[Read more]