“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

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Books by Charles Lamb

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

1975

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The essays of Elia, first series

2007

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Charles Lamb

2003

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