A Dissertation upon Roast

by Charles Lamb

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Genres: Essays, British Literature, Classics

26 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 8, 2015

About the author

Charles Lamb was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his "Essays of Elia" and for the children's book "Tales from Shakespeare", which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

Reviews

[Carly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ähhhm ja…
Kinda disturbing maybe…

[Francisco Barrios · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un ensayo breve —e hilarante— sobre los orígenes, el cuidado al guisar y el celo al comer lechón rostizado; una de las delicias culinarias de la Inglaterra georgiana, platillo por excelencia de deshollinadores, estibadores y cocheros, y oportunidad para que la pluma, ligera y precisa, de Charles Lamb nos deleite con su fina ironía para construir un ensayo estructuralmente perfecto.

Complementa el volumen “Una nota sobre literatura”, a propósito de aquellas personas que querían dedicarse a las letras en el s. XIX. Divertidísimo e imperdible.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Charles Lamb's tongue in cheek story of how man came to eat roasted pigs. Made me laugh when I was very young and first read it, and made me laugh today and think how some things never change. Case in point...when the father and son are tried for unnatural practices and found not guilty,

The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of
the decision: and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and
bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money.

[pratiksha]

what the fuck was this
idek if the descriptions were supposed to be enticing or disgusting but they were super explicit so much i felt like i was reading a porno
i'll never have pork the same way again

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laugh out louud funny and, dare I say, delicious.

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Talk about run-on sentences, but I guess that was typical of the time. The language, even though it was about eating pigs, was flowery and entertaining.

[Dhanasekaran]

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