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ESSxlYS OF ELIA
BY
CHARLES LAMB
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Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb · 1908 · Scanned text · Free in the US
156,195 words · about 10 h 56 min to read
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1908, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/08007379); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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- Charles Lamb
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1908
- Length
- 156,195 words · about 10 h 56 min
- Sections
- 17 reader sections
- Text
- Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
- Rights
- Public domain in the United States
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Contents (17)
- Front matter about 2 min
- Contents about 5 h 24 min
- Preface about 2 h 8 min
- I about 1 min
- II about 1 min
- III under 1 min
- IV. Because I oft in dark abstracted guise under 1 min
- V about 1 min
- VI. In martial sports I had my cunning tried about 1 min
- VII about 1 min
- IX. 1 never drank of Aganippe i well about 1 min
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- XII about 1 h 49 min
- XIII That You Must Love Me And Love My Dog about 6 min
- XIV That We Should Rise With The Lark about 4 min
- XV That We Should Lie Down With The Lamb about 1 h 18 min
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