Excerpt from The Works in Prose and Verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 1: Miscellaneous Prose; Elia; Last Essays of Elia The present edition of the works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains within two handy volumes (1) all that has been recovered hitherto of their literary prose, (2) the plays, dramatic fragments, prologues, and epilogues by Charles, and - saving a few relatively unimportant pieces excluded on the score of copyright the body of his and Mary's verse. This heterogeneous material falls at once into certain broad divisions Miscellaneous Prose, Elian Essays, Tales and Rhymes for Children, Poems and Verses, Dramatic Writings within each of which divisions the contents are, in the following pages, printed in chronological series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.