Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life looking after her; had collaborated with her, in fact, on their Tales From Shakespeare. This world was made by God, he once remarked, but He has left it for humanity to bustle about in. These are Lamb's reflections on said bustlings. He once said of his close friend Coleridge that the man was hungry for eternity; but Lamb was hungry for humanity. He satisfies this hunger admirably in these Last Essays. - Summary by Tony Addison
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface
11:02 - Chapter 2
Essay One
15:33 - Chapter 3
Essay Two
22:12 - Chapter 4
Essay Three
11:31 - Chapter 5
Essay Four
08:22 - Chapter 6
Essay Five
17:38 - Chapter 7
Essay Six
20:22 - Chapter 8
Essay Seven
25:28 - Chapter 9
Essay Eight
15:30 - Chapter 10
Essay Nine
11:29 - Chapter 11
Essay Ten
13:24 - Chapter 12
Essay Eleven
27:11 - Chapter 13
Essay Twelve
16:42 - Chapter 14
Essay Thirteen
20:11 - Chapter 15
Essay Fourteen
08:45 - Chapter 16
Essay Fifteen
16:34 - Chapter 17
Essay Sixteen
27:54 - Chapter 18
Essay Seventeen
24:19 - Chapter 19
Essay Eighteen
39:50 - Chapter 20
Essay Nineteen
15:53 - Chapter 21
Essay Twenty
18:20 - Chapter 22
Essay Twenty One
10:00 - Chapter 23
Essay Twenty Two
06:14 - Chapter 24
Essay Twenty Three
17:43 - Chapter 25
Essay Twenty Four Part One
22:41 - Chapter 26
Essay Twenty Four Part Two
1:13:55 - Chapter 27
Essay Twenty Five
35:40 - Chapter 28
Essay Twenty Six
43:05 - Chapter 29
Essay Twenty Seven
21:11