| The Works of Charles Lamb V2 Contributor(s): Lamb, Charles (Author), Talfourd, Thomas Noon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162806990 ISBN-13: 9781162806990 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | African - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6" W x 9" (1.39 lbs) 476 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 1847. Part Two of Two. To which are prefixed his letters, and a sketch of his life by Thomas Noon Talfourd, one of his executors. English essayist and poet, Charles Lamb (pen name Elia), studied at Christ's Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When he was twenty years old Lamb suffered a period of insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but was eventually released into the care of her brother. Lamb became friends in London with a group of young writers who favored political reform including Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt. In addition to his letters and biography, this volume contains: Poems; Essays and Letters. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
