Essays of Elia

Noted English politician and academic, Augustine Birrel once said, “…of all English authors, Charles Lamb is the one loved most warmly and emotionally by his readers”. Elia, to give him his chosen name in literature, wrote inimitable essays, containing the essence of his joys and sufferings, often veiled or disguised (for he loved to mystify) but still the essence of all he knew and felt about life. And all written in a style that defies analysis.