Charles Lamb
(1775 - 1834)
Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb.
Bibliography
Everybody’s Lamb (1933)
A generous helping of Lamb.
A Masque of Days (1901)
An anthropomorphized day come to a grand party for the new year. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Tales from Shakespeare (1899)
Brief prose versions of the most famous Shakespeare plays. Mary did the comedies, Charles did the tragedies. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Mary Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare (1909)
This edition of prose versions of Shakespeare’s best known plays has colored illustrations. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Mary Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare (1918)
A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.
Mary Lamb
Frank Schoonover
Tales from Shakespeare (1922)
An unusually well illustrated edition of this classic, including twenty of the plays. The Comedies were done by Mary; the tragedies by Charles. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Mary Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare (1923)
Seventeen favorite plays by the Bard of Avon.
Mary Lamb
Miska Petersham
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1912)
Six volumes. The gilt device on the cover is by Bedford. This is the foolscap octavo edition, which includes new material not in the large paper edition of 1903-5. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Mary Lamb