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Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

Name: Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia
Author: Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Read by Adrian Stephens, KevinS, Sandra Cullum, Arden, Alan Mapstone, colson, drwebber, Yaelin Lee, Micfairy252, Jennifer Henry, weezer, Paul Harvey, RomaSingh and Matea Bracic · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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The South-Sea House (22:45)
Oxford in the Vacation (14:11)
Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago (37:44)
The Two Races of Men (15:56)
New Year's Eve (17:40)
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist (17:24)
A Chapter on Ears (14:35)
All Fools' Day (8:52)
A Quaker's Meeting (13:54)
The Old and the New Schoolmaster (24:55)
Valentine's Day (9:31)
Imperfect Sympathies (21:34)
Witches, and other Night-Fears (18:45)
My Relations (17:48)
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire (12:59)
Modern Gallantry (8:49)
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple (30:15)
Grace Before Meat (14:39)
My First Play (12:31)
Dream-Children; A Reverie (8:54)
Distant Correspondents (13:01)
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers (19:13)
A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis (20:48)
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig (20:48)
A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People (20:38)
On Some Old Actors (33:40)
On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century (22:17)
On the Acting of Munden (6:26)
Preface, by a Friend of the late Elia (7:27)
Blakesmoor in H—shire (14:18)
Poor Relations (18:39)
Stage Illusion (7:33)
To the Shade of Elliston (8:10)
Ellistoniana (14:43)
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading (14:14)
The Old Margate Hoy (22:11)
The Convalescent (9:18)
Sanity of True Genius (8:38)
Captain Jackson (11:28)
The Superannuated Man (16:14)
The Genteel Style in Writing (13:53)
Barbara S— (13:48)
The Tombs in the Abbey (7:00)
Amicus Redivivus (12:46)
Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney (21:57)
Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago (17:16)
Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art (23:54)
Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age (12:11)
The Wedding (16:10)
The Child Angel: a Dream (8:29)
A Death-Bed (3:36)
Old China (15:33)
Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 1-9 (22:59)
Popular Fallacies: Fallaices 10-12 (22:57)
Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 13-16 (28:26)
On Some of the Old Actors (London Magazine, Feb., 1822) (32:33)
The Old Actors (London Magazine, April, 1822) (31:54)
The Old Actors (London Magazine, October, 1822) (15:29)