title: Illustrated Tales from Shakespeare
author: Charles Lamb
description: An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic plays based on the original stories of Charles and Mary Lamb offers prose editions of the Bard's great comedies, tragedies, and history plays, all lavishly illustrated in full color.
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  # Charles Lamb
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Walter Jerrold
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHARLES LAMB
  
  
  HIS PRINCIPAL WRITINGS
  
  
  THE ESSAYS OF ELIA
  
  
  HIS STYLE
  
  
  CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS
  
  
  II. POSTHUMOUS WORKS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS
  
  
  III. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the
  
  
  Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Illustration: CHARLES LAMB AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-ONE.
  
  
  BY HENRY MEYER.
  
  
  From the original painting at the India Office, reproduced by
  
  
  permission
  
  
  of the Secretary of State for India in Council.]
  
  
  
  
  
  Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers
  
  
  
  
  
  CHARLES LAMB
  
  
  
  
  
  BY
  
  
  WALTER JERROLD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LONDON
  
  
  GEORGE BELL &SONS
  
  
  1905
  
  
  
  
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  THE STORY OF HIS LIFE
  
  
  HIS PRINCIPAL WRITINGS:
  
  
  Poetry
  
  
  The Drama
  
  
  Stories
  
  
  Verses
  
  
  Criticism
  
  
  Essays
  
  
  Letters
  
  
  THE ESSAYS OF ELIA
  
  
  HIS STYLE
  
  