{"product_id":"complete-works-of-charles-and-mary-lamb-volume-iv-elia-and-he-last-essays-of-elia-9780198882985","title":"Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV: Elia and He Last Essays of Elia","description":"'The enfranchised quill, that has plodded all the morning among the cart-rucks of figures and cyphers, frisks and curvets so at its ease over the flowery carpet-ground of a midnight dissertation.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles Lamb was employed full-time as a clerk in the City of London for most of his adult life, hence his literary output is relatively small when compared with freelance contemporaries such as Thomas De Quincey or William Hazlitt (P.P. Howe's complete Hazlitt edition of the 1930s runs to twenty-one volumes; E. V. Lucas's 1903 edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Works of Charles and Mary Lamb\u003c\/em\u003e has five). Nevertheless, what Lamb's oeuvre might lack in size it more than makes up for in quality: both as a contributor to the great Romantic conversation about art and life, and as the English language's greatest familiar essayist, Lamb is an indispensable figure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume contains \u003cem\u003eElia\u003c\/em\u003e (1823) and \u003cem\u003eThe Last Essays of Elia \u003c\/em\u003e(1833), the essay collections for which he is best known. It is the fourth volume in the \u003cem\u003eComplete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb\u003c\/em\u003e, the first scholarly edition of their works in a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregory Dart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.49w x 2.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198882985","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46858624336009,"sku":"9780198882985","price":270.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_34800c45-9ef2-448e-9f7e-659c66b8abac.jpg?v=1780982754","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/complete-works-of-charles-and-mary-lamb-volume-iv-elia-and-he-last-essays-of-elia-9780198882985","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}