The Last Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb
Read by Tony Addison
Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life looking after her; had collaborated with her, in fact, on their Tales From Shakespeare. This world was made by God, he once remarked, but He has left it for humanity to bustle about in. These are Lamb's reflections on said bustlings. He once said of his close friend Coleridge that the man was hungry for eternity; but Lamb was hungry for humanity. He satisfies this hunger admirably in these Last Essays. - Summary by Tony Addison (10 hr 18 min)
Chapters
Preface | 11:02 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay One | 15:33 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Two | 22:12 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Three | 11:31 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Four | 8:22 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Five | 17:38 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Six | 20:22 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Seven | 25:28 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Eight | 15:30 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Nine | 11:29 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Ten | 13:24 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Eleven | 27:11 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twelve | 16:42 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Thirteen | 20:11 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Fourteen | 8:45 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Fifteen | 16:34 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Sixteen | 27:54 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Seventeen | 24:19 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Eighteen | 39:50 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Nineteen | 15:53 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty | 18:20 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty One | 10:00 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty Two | 6:14 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty Three | 17:43 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty Four Part One | 22:41 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty Four Part Two | 1:13:55 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty Five | 35:40 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty Six | 43:05 | Read by Tony Addison |
Essay Twenty Seven | 21:11 | Read by Tony Addison |