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1、Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Born in London in a poor clerkfamily in 1775 Served as a clerk in the South Sea House and then the East India House untill the retirement Died in 1834,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Charles Lamb was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia
2、 and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb.,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Company Logo,Quotations,Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. features in the preface of To Kill a Mockingbird. Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the be
3、tter in something or other. features in the Essays of Elia, 1823,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Having good friendships with Coleridge,Wordworth ,Godwin,Hazlit and Hunt,Portrait of Charles Lamb by William Hazlitt,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Charles and his sister Mary both suffered periods of mental illnes
4、s.,Charles and Mary,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,In 1796, a terrible event occurred: Mary, went bad sudenly and stabbed her mother to the heart with a table knife.,“I had a mother, but she died, and left me, Died prematurely in a day of horrors - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”,Company Logo
5、,Charles Lamb,Lamb, because of family commitments, Lamb ,had never married. Although he once fell in love with an actress, Fanny Kelly, and proposed marriage, but She refused him, and he died a bachelor.,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Charles died in 1834 and Mary died 14 years later,Charles and Marys grave,Company Logo,Charles Lamb,Liangyuchun ,called”the elia of China”,did some transition of Lamb,