Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia


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Elia and The Last Essays of Elia are two collections of essays written by Charles Lamb. The essays first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. They were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers.

Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Lamb took the name of Elia from an old Italian clerk at the South-Sea House in Lamb's time of employment there; that is, in 1791-1792. Many of these essays contain references to Lamb's contemporaries or events of his day, which may not strike as strong a chord in the heart of the contemporary listener.
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The South-Sea House 22:45 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Oxford in the Vacation 14:11 Leído por KevinS
Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago 37:44 Leído por Adrian Stephens
The Two Races of Men 15:56 Leído por Adrian Stephens
New Year's Eve 17:40 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist 17:24 Leído por Adrian Stephens
A Chapter on Ears 14:35 Leído por Adrian Stephens
All Fools' Day 8:52 Leído por Adrian Stephens
A Quaker's Meeting 13:54 Leído por Sandra Cullum
The Old and the New Schoolmaster 24:55 Leído por Sandra Cullum
Valentine's Day 9:31 Leído por Sandra Cullum
Imperfect Sympathies 21:34 Leído por Sandra Cullum
Witches, and other Night-Fears 18:45 Leído por Sandra Cullum
My Relations 17:48 Leído por Sandra Cullum
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire 12:59 Leído por Sandra Cullum
Modern Gallantry 8:49 Leído por Arden
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple 30:15 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Grace Before Meat 14:39 Leído por Arden
My First Play 12:31 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Dream-Children; A Reverie 8:54 Leído por Arden
Distant Correspondents 13:01 Leído por Arden
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers 19:13 Leído por Adrian Stephens
A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis 20:48 Leído por Adrian Stephens
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig 20:48 Leído por Adrian Stephens
A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People 20:38 Leído por Adrian Stephens
On Some Old Actors 33:40 Leído por Adrian Stephens
On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century 22:17 Leído por Adrian Stephens
On the Acting of Munden 6:26 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Preface, by a Friend of the late Elia 7:27 Leído por colson
Blakesmoor in H—shire 14:18 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Poor Relations 18:39 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Stage Illusion 7:33 Leído por Arden
To the Shade of Elliston 8:10 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Ellistoniana 14:43 Leído por drwebber
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 14:14 Leído por Arden
The Old Margate Hoy 22:11 Leído por Adrian Stephens
The Convalescent 9:18 Leído por Arden
Sanity of True Genius 8:38 Leído por Yaelin Lee
Captain Jackson 11:28 Leído por drwebber
The Superannuated Man 16:14 Leído por Arden
The Genteel Style in Writing 13:53 Leído por Micfairy252
Barbara S— 13:48 Leído por Jennifer Henry
The Tombs in the Abbey 7:00 Leído por weezer
Amicus Redivivus 12:46 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney 21:57 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago 17:16 Leído por Arden
Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art 23:54 Leído por Arden
Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age 12:11 Leído por Arden
The Wedding 16:10 Leído por Paul Harvey
The Child Angel: a Dream 8:29 Leído por Paul Harvey
A Death-Bed 3:36 Leído por RomaSingh
Old China 15:33 Leído por drwebber
Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 1-9 22:59 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Popular Fallacies: Fallaices 10-12 22:57 Leído por Adrian Stephens
Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 13-16 28:26 Leído por Adrian Stephens
On Some of the Old Actors (London Magazine, Feb., 1822) 32:33 Leído por Adrian Stephens
The Old Actors (London Magazine, April, 1822) 31:54 Leído por Matea Bracic
The Old Actors (London Magazine, October, 1822) 15:29 Leído por Matea Bracic