Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb
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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.
- Summary by TriciaG (16 hr 14 min)
Chapters
The South-Sea House | 22:45 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Oxford in the Vacation | 14:11 | Read by KevinS |
Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago | 37:44 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
The Two Races of Men | 15:56 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
New Year's Eve | 17:40 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist | 17:24 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
A Chapter on Ears | 14:35 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
All Fools' Day | 8:52 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
A Quaker's Meeting | 13:54 | Read by Sandra Cullum |
The Old and the New Schoolmaster | 24:55 | Read by Sandra Cullum |
Valentine's Day | 9:31 | Read by Sandra Cullum |
Imperfect Sympathies | 21:34 | Read by Sandra Cullum |
Witches, and other Night-Fears | 18:45 | Read by Sandra Cullum |
My Relations | 17:48 | Read by Sandra Cullum |
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire | 12:59 | Read by Sandra Cullum |
Modern Gallantry | 8:49 | Read by Arden |
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple | 30:15 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Grace Before Meat | 14:39 | Read by Arden |
My First Play | 12:31 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Dream-Children; A Reverie | 8:54 | Read by Arden |
Distant Correspondents | 13:01 | Read by Arden |
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers | 19:13 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis | 20:48 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig | 20:48 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People | 20:38 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
On Some Old Actors | 33:40 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century | 22:17 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
On the Acting of Munden | 6:26 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Preface, by a Friend of the late Elia | 7:27 | Read by colson |
Blakesmoor in H—shire | 14:18 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Poor Relations | 18:39 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Stage Illusion | 7:33 | Read by Arden |
To the Shade of Elliston | 8:10 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Ellistoniana | 14:43 | Read by drwebber |
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading | 14:14 | Read by Arden |
The Old Margate Hoy | 22:11 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
The Convalescent | 9:18 | Read by Arden |
Sanity of True Genius | 8:38 | Read by Yaelin Lee |
Captain Jackson | 11:28 | Read by drwebber |
The Superannuated Man | 16:14 | Read by Arden |
The Genteel Style in Writing | 13:53 | Read by Micfairy252 |
Barbara S— | 13:48 | Read by Jennifer Henry |
The Tombs in the Abbey | 7:00 | Read by weezer |
Amicus Redivivus | 12:46 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney | 21:57 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago | 17:16 | Read by Arden |
Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art | 23:54 | Read by Arden |
Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age | 12:11 | Read by Arden |
The Wedding | 16:10 | Read by Paul Harvey |
The Child Angel: a Dream | 8:29 | Read by Paul Harvey |
A Death-Bed | 3:36 | Read by RomaSingh |
Old China | 15:33 | Read by drwebber |
Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 1-9 | 22:59 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Popular Fallacies: Fallaices 10-12 | 22:57 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 13-16 | 28:26 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
On Some of the Old Actors (London Magazine, Feb., 1822) | 32:33 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
The Old Actors (London Magazine, April, 1822) | 31:54 | Read by Matea Bracic |
The Old Actors (London Magazine, October, 1822) | 15:29 | Read by Matea Bracic |