“charles and mary lamb”

This Book Contains 20 Tales From Shakespear'S Plays Which Are Rewritten In Simple English, In The From Of Tales By Charles And May Lamb.... More

Enthralling prose retellings for young readers of some of Shakespeare's most beloved works. This selection of works features "The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," and... More

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, ... More

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his daughter Miranda, a very beautiful young lady. She came to this island so young, that she had no memory of having seen any other human face than her father's.... More

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. The book reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare to a simple level that chi... More

Originally published in the 1930s. The book is intended as an introduction for the younger reader to the study of Shakespeare. Eighteen famous tales have been partly rewritten to facilitate this. illustrations are by Arthur Rackham. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1... More