Charles W Lamb

The Best Letters of Charles Lamb

"[...]porter,—a noontide meal for a hodman,—and the hour midnight! One is reminded, à propos of Miss Lamb's robust viands, that Elia somewhere confesses to "an occasional nightmare;" "but I do not," he adds, "keep a whole stud of them." To go deeper into this matter, to speculate upon the possible g...

ALICE

Captain Jacob Thomas USMC is a divorced combat veteran just trying to get his life back on track. Returning to the Marine Corps after a failed attempt at reconciliation with his estranged wife, Jake volunteers for a DARPA experiment that catapults him into a future where humanity has been stripped o...

Tales from Shakespeare (Wordsworth Children's Classics)

The Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved tales, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them po...

The Essays of Elia (Classic Reprint)

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. Cha...

Tales From Shakespeare

In this charming collectible, a selection of Charles and Mary Lamb’s classic prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays are beautifully illustrated by acclaimed artist Joëlle Jolivet. The Lambs’ Shakespeare, familiar to readers since the 1800s, gets a modern twist from Jolivet’s vibrant and colorful ar...

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Volume 2 - Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Miscellaneous Prose

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Tales from Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare is a work by Charles Lamb now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic.

The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles

The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles

Housing Segregation In Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics

Housing Segregation In Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics

Implementation of Civil Rights Policy

Supreme Court Activism and Restraint

The Portable Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare

Mary Shelley

… 1837, Percy's works were well-known and increasingly admired.[115] In the summer of 1838 Edward Moxon, the publisher of Tennyson and the son-in-law of Charles Lamb, proposed publishing a collected works of Percy Shelley. Mary was paid 500 to edit the Poetical Works (1838), which Sir Timothy...

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 27 December 1834) was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales...