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Beowulf
Sir Gawain
Paradise Lost
Canterbury Tales
Morte d'Arthur
Leviathan
Essays of Elia and A Dissertation on Roast Pig
Alice in Wonderland
Under Milk Wood
Lighthouse
The British novel as a whole is a disaster. Dickens? Austen? Zzzzzz. Do these people have anything to talk ...
... and only bought two books, used ones at that, Essays and Sketches by Charles Lamb, 'cause these ones aren't covered in The Essays of Elia ;-) and I'm finding I love Lamb, and Ramses, the Son of Light, I love escaping to the heat of ancient Egypt.
I saw another old book that I was ...
... purchases as well as my own. Can't wait to see what you get from Ottawa, Katy!
My own purchases this past weekend:
The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, my own precious find of the weekend, wouldn't let go of it for the rest of the afternoon!
Familiar Fields by Peter McArthur
An Urchi ...
... by Elizabeth Bowen.
William and Dorothy by Helen Ashton - a fictional biography about William and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb - such a lovely edition, and inscribed with a wonderful, copperplate handwriting inside that just reminded me of my great aunt, I had to ...
Lamb's Essays of Elia is one of my favourite little essay books.
ETA: I always wondered if Mary was a paranoid schizophrenic - did anything you read speculate about her condition, Stasia?
Finished the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, and had to pick up my Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb which has been waiting patiently on my shelf for some years to be read. Enjoyed the first one, but need a quiet hayloft in a barn to concentrate on them. Sitting in a room where OH is ...
... And I mean physically, not just literally.
I'd suggest Charles Lamb, strictly on the basis of his introduction to Last Essays of Elia . For the noninitiate, I reproduce the first lines:
"This poor gentleman, who for some months past had been in a declining way, hath at length paid ...
... O'Kellys by Anthony Trollope
Vermeer's Hat: The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook
Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Ah, now I am home.
And, sitting among the un-LibraryThinged trade paperbacks, I find The Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia , by Charles Lamb, containing "A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig."
The essays of Elia and The last essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
... (how many different ways can we bring Charles and Mary in here?)
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Lambs of god by Marele Day
The wolves and the lamb by W.M. Thackeray
... Antoine Bloyé), I'd like to second (or third) a couple - Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia. Different as they are, both wholeheartedly deserve to be read.
(Forgive the grammatical oddness, though.)
... if you have to start somewhere, Dissertation on Roast Pig is among my all-time favorites, but almost any volume of the Essays of Elia is likely to have some good stuff. Lots of precious little nuggets.
Thanks! If anyone has more ideas, always helpful!
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