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A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays Charles Lamb

A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays By Charles Lamb

A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays by Charles Lamb


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Exploring the joys of food and also our complicated social relationship with it, this title describes eating, drinking and appetite.

A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays Summary

A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays by Charles Lamb

A rapturous appreciation of pork crackling, a touching description of hungry London chimney sweeps, a discussion of the strange pleasure of eating pineapple and a meditation on the delights of Christmas feasting are just some of the subjects of these personal, playful writings from early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb. Exploring the joys of food and also our complicated social relationship with it, these essays are by turns sensuous, mischievous, lyrical and self-mocking. Filled with a sense of hunger, they are some of the most fascinating and nuanced works ever written about eating, drinking and appetite.

About Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he shared a lifelong friendship. Lamb never achieved the same literary success as his friends but his influence on the English essay form cannot be underestimated and his book, Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets is remembered for popularising the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

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GOR003690486
9780241951002
0241951003
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays by Charles Lamb
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20110407
96
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