This volume contains the work by which Charles Lamb is best known and upon which his fame will rest--_Elia_ and _The Last Essays of Elia_. Although one essay is as early as 1811, and one is perhaps as late as 1832, the book represents the period between 1820 and 1826, when Lamb was between forty-five and fifty-one. This was the richest period of his literary life. The text of the present volume is that of the first edition of each book--_Elia_, 1823, and _The Last Essays of Elia_, 1833. The principal differences between the essays as they were printed in the _London Magazine_ and elsewhere, and as they were revised for book form by their author, are shown in the Notes, which, it should be p…
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