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Charles Lamb wrote essays under the pseudonym "Elia" in the 1820s. Few have written more evocatively of the past, of childhood, loss, books and plays, and London. This volume contains all the "Elia" essays Lamb collected in book form, including the "Confessions of a Drunkard."