A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Lucas suggests that sometime in 1781 Charles left Mrs. In one famous story Boyer was said to have knocked one of Leigh Hunt's teeth out by throwing a copy of Homer at him from across the room. " The essays "Dream Children" "New Year's Eve" and several others speak of the many years that Lamb spent pursuing his love that ultimately failed.

V. Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare which he produced with his sister Mary Lamb (1764–1847).