Charles Lamb 
The Last Essays of Elia (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1833 follow-up to Lamb’s popular
Essays of Elia (1823) collects more of the essays that established his reputation as one of the supreme English masters of the form.  Included is what many critics consider to be his best short work, ‘Old China, ‘ as well as the essays “Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago, ” “A Chapter on Ears, ” and “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People.”

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Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist and critic best known for a series of autobiographical essays written under the pseudonym of Elia.  With his sister, Mary Lamb (1764-1847), he adapted Shakespeare’s plays for children in Tales from Shakespeare (1807).