Whimsical, tender personal essays in which 'Elia' muses on old actors, roast pig, chimney-sweeps, and vanished friends.
Books that mention Essays of Elia (3)
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot: “She was giving forth with charming distinctness the delightful Essay of Elia, “The Praise of Chimney-Sweeps,” and all were smiling over the “innocent blackness,””
The Octopus by Frank Norris: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff: “She asks for Lamb's Essays of Elia in a Macdonald Illustrated Classics edition; the shop finally finds her a copy.”