A Portrait of Charles Lamb by David Cecil - 04/28/1986

Constable and Company Ltd, 1986. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Constable and Company Ltd, 1986. Paperback. Like New. Former library book; Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Constable, April 1986. Paper Back. Acceptable.

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Constable, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable. Very Good. 1983. Soft Cover. 0094670501 Colour & b/w illustrations. 192 pages clean and tight. Charles Lamb, like Johnson and Byron, was equally memorable for his personality and for his writings. This personality was a curious and fascinating mixture: fantastic and homely, childlike and wise, pensively romantic and exuberantly humorous (responsive, to the attraction of the quaint and antique and also to the hustle and vitality of contemporary London). Charm and genius, brought him to the centre of that Romantic Movement that was revolutionising literary England: he was the intimate friend of its two leaders Coleridge and Wordsworth; and himself became famous as a talker. But there was another side to Lamb's life: From an early age he was involved in a terrible family, drama of madness and murder which added another and tragic element to the complexity of his personality. David Cecil recreates that personality, and the reader is entranced as the incidents of a… Read More

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