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A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays

Charles Lamb

A rapturous appreciation of pork crackling, a touching description of hungry London chimney sweeps, a discussion of the strange pleasure of eating pineapple and a meditation on the delights of Christmas feasting are just some of the subjects of these personal, playful writings from early nineteenth-...

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The essays of Charles Lamb were recommended as something 'cool' for men to read during the summer before the Civil War.

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So the essays of Charles Lamb, of all things, for summer reading.

— Episode: The summer I turned into a bookworm

Episode: The summer I turned into a bookworm

The essays of Charles Lamb were recommended as something 'cool' for men to read during the summer before the Civil War.

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So the essays of Charles Lamb, of all things, for summer reading.

Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M was obliging enough to read and explain to me. For the first 70,000 ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal? Just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. From Charles Lamb's A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig.

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