A portrait of Charles Lamb

by David Cecil

Book by Cecil, David

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Ivy-Mabel Fling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Writing a biography must be a hard task - after all, there are so many things one cannot possibly know. What did the person really think? What did he/she do in periods that have never been recorded? Does it really matter how many chimneys his/her house had? Being very sceptical of this genre, I was pleasantly surprised by David Cecil's work on Charles Lamb. It is not full of extraneous details about his life-style and does not include any information on chimneys or other irrelevant features of Lamb's surroundings. It is relatively short, written in such a way that the reader does not long for it to end and useful to beginners as well as those who are already well informed on Lamb's life and work. If you are interested in this writer and the English Romantics in general, this may well be the book for you!