Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb has written at least 24 books. Their most popular book is Tales from Shakespeare with 17 saves with an average rating of 3.8⭐.

Author Bio

Charles Lamb was born in Bolton, Lancashire. In 1930, he joined the merchant navy and went to sea as an apprentice. While at a mission in Buenos Aires, he learned to box. In 1933, he joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a midshipman aboard the battleship HMS Rodney, and began boxing for the Navy as a lightweight. In 1934 he returned to England, and in 1935 he joined the Royal Air Force and was assigned to the Coastal Command. In 1936 he won the RAF Officers' Boxing Championship. In 1938 he transferred to the Air Branch of the Royal Navy as a sub-lieutenant. In 1939 he married Josephine Frances Elgar, with whom he went on to have two sons.

When World War II began, Lamb flew a Fairey Swordfish fighter plane, nicknamed the "Stringbag" by servicemen. In 1941, while flying in the Greek campaign, he was shot down during an air raid on Malta. He was imprisoned until freed by the Allied invasion of Algeria in 1942. Whole recovering from malnutrition, he recruited cadets. In 1943 he was approved to pilot again, and he joined the aircraft carrier HMS Implacable as Lieutenant-Commander, escorting Arctic convoys and launched air strikes against the German battleship Tirpitz. In 1945 he was injured by a broken propellor and spent two years recovering in a hospital before returning to duty. He served as a commanding officer until his retirement in 1958.

His war memoir, *War in a Stringbag*, was published in 1977.

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Details	Rating	Readers Count
Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb Mary Lamb	3.8	7 reads
The Complete Harvard Classics Collection The Complete Harvard Classics Collection Joseph Addison Aeschylus Aesop Hans Christian Andersen Aristophanes Augustine of Hippo Jane Austen Francis Bacon Francis Beaumont George Berkeley Walter Bigges Thomas Browne Robert Browning John Bunyan Edmund Burke Robert Burns Lord Byron Thomas Carlyle Benvenuto Cellini Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Marcus Tullius Cicero Samuel Taylor Coleridge Confucius Pierre Corneille Abraham Cowley Richard Henry Dana Jr. Charles Darwin Alphonse Daudet Daniel Defoe Thomas Dekker Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky Francis Drake John Dryden George Eliot Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus Michael Faraday Henry Fielding John Fletcher Theodor Fontane Benjamin Franklin Jean Froissart David Garrick Archibald Geikie Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oliver Goldsmith Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm Edward Haies Edward Everett Hale William Henry Harrison William Harvey Bret Harte Nathaniel Hawthorne William Hazlitt Hermann von Helmholtz Herodotus Hippocrates Thomas Hobbes Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Homer Victor Hugo Leigh Hunt Washington Irving Samuel Johnson Ben Jonson Immanuel Kant Gottfried Keller Alexander L. Kielland Charles Lamb Joseph Lister James Russell Lowell Thomas Babington Macaulay Alessandro Manzoni Marcus Aurelius Christopher Marlowe Philip Massinger Guy de Maupassant Giuseppe Mazzini John Stuart Mill John Milton Michel de Montaigne Thomas More Alfred de Musset William A. Neilson Simon Newcomb Philip Nichols Blaise Pascal Louis Pasteur William Penn Plato Dante Alighieri Pliny the Younger Edgar Allan Poe Francis Pretty Ernest Renan Jean Racine Walter Raleigh William Roper Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Ruskin Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve George Sand Friedrich Schiller William Shakespeare Richard Brinsley Sheridan Philip Sidney Adam Smith Sydney Smith Richard Steele Laurence Sterne Theodor Storm Tacitus William Makepeace Thackeray Henry David Thoreau Leo Tolstoy Ivan Turgenev Mark Twain Juan Valera Virgil Voltaire Izaak Walton John Webster John Woolman Walter Scott Sophocles Honoré de Balzac Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Pedro Calderón de la Barca René Descartes Euripides Henry James Thomas à Kempis Niccolò Machiavelli Molière Ambroise Paré Thomas De Quincey Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan Swift Robert Louis Stevenson	0	2 reads
Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb Charles Lamb	3.83	2 reads
The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature Edmund Burke Euripides Thomas à Kempis Charles Lamb John Milton Thomas De Quincey Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Sydney Smith John Webster Joseph Addison Aeschylus Aesop Dante Alighieri Hans Christian Andersen Aristophanes Augustine of Hippo Jane Austen Francis Bacon Honoré de Balzac Pedro Calderón de la Barca Francis Beaumont George Berkeley Walter Bigges Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Thomas Browne Robert Browning John Bunyan Robert Burns Lord Byron Thomas Carlyle Benvenuto Cellini Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Marcus Tullius Cicero Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pierre Corneille Abraham Cowley Richard Henry Dana Jr. Charles Darwin Alphonse Daudet Daniel Defoe Thomas Dekker René Descartes Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky Francis Drake John Dryden George Eliot Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus Michael Faraday Henry Fielding John Fletcher Theodor Fontane Benjamin Franklin Jean Froissart David Garrick Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Archibald Geikie Oliver Goldsmith Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm Edward Haies Edward Everett Hale William Henry Harrison Bret Harte William Harvey Nathaniel Hawthorne William Hazlitt Hermann von Helmholtz Herodotus Hippocrates Thomas Hobbes Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Victor Hugo Homer Leigh Hunt Washington Irving Henry James Samuel Johnson Ben Jonson Immanuel Kant Gottfried Keller Alexander L. Kielland Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Joseph Lister John Locke James Russell Lowell Martin Luther Thomas Babington Macaulay Niccolò Machiavelli Thomas Malory Alessandro Manzoni Marcus Aurelius Christopher Marlowe Philip Massinger Guy de Maupassant Giuseppe Mazzini John Stuart Mill Molière Michel de Montaigne Thomas More Alfred de Musset William A. Neilson Simon Newcomb Philip Nichols Ambroise Paré Blaise Pascal Louis Pasteur William Penn Plato Pliny the Younger Plutarch Edgar Allan Poe Francis Pretty Jean Racine Walter Raleigh Ernest Renan William Roper Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Ruskin George Sand Friedrich Schiller Walter Scott William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Brinsley Sheridan Philip Sidney Adam Smith Richard Steele Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Theodor Storm Jonathan Swift William Makepeace Thackeray Tacitus Henry David Thoreau Leo Tolstoy Ivan Turgenev Mark Twain Juan Valera Virgil Voltaire Izaak Walton John Woolman Sophocles	0	0 reads
The Selected Prose Charles Lamb	4	1 read
The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition Plato Marcus Aurelius William Shakespeare Benjamin Franklin Homer Friedrich von Schiller William Makepeace Thackeray John Ruskin Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Alan Poe Henry David Thoreau Voltaire Jean Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Thomas Hobbes John Woolman William Penn Epictetus Francis Bacon John Milton Thomas Browne Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Burns Saint Augustine Thomas à Kempis Aeschylus Aristophanes Marcus Tullius Cicero Pliny the Younger Charles Darwin Plutarch Virgil Miguel de Cervantes John Bunyan Izaak Walton Aesop Wilhelm Grimm Jacob Grimm Hans Christian Andersen John Dryden Richard Brinsley Sheridan David Garrick Oliver Goldsmith Robert Browning George Gordon Byron Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christopher Marlowe Alessandro Manzoni Richard Henry Dana Edmund Burke John Stuart Mill Thomas Carlyle Pedro Calderón de la Barca Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Molière Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Philip Sidney Ben Jonson Abraham Cowley Joseph Addison Richard Steele Daniel Defoe Samuel Johnson David Hume Sydney Smith Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Hazlitt Leigh Hunt Thomas De Quincey Thomas Babington Macaulay James Russell Lowell Michael Faraday Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Simon Newcomb Archibald Geikie Benvenuto Cellini Michel de Montaigne Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Ernest Renan Giuseppe Mazzini Herodotus Tacitus Francis Drake Philip Nichols Francis Pretty Walter Bigges Edward Haies Walter Raleigh René Descartes Jean Froissart Thomas Malory William Henry Harrison William Roper Thomas More Martin Luther John Locke George Berkeley Hippocrates Niccolò Machiavelli Sophocles Ambroise Paré William Harvey Oliver Wendell Holmes Joseph Lister Louis Pasteur Thomas Dekker Francis Beaumont John Fletcher John Webster Philip Massinger Blaise Pascal William A. Neilson Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Dante Alighieri Jonathan Swift Adam Smith Adam Smith	0	0 reads
Os 100 Melhores Contos de Humor da Literatura Universal Homer Aesop Saadi Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Giovanni Boccaccio Franco Sacchetti Niccolò Machiavelli Marguerite de Navarre Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Otto Melander Francisco de Quevedo Charles Sorel Jonathan Swift Voltaire Marquis de Sade Mary Lamb Edgar Allan Poe Nikolai Gogol Mór Jókai Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Mark Twain Machado de Assis Alphonse Daudet Ambrose Bierce Guy de Maupassant Emilia Pardo Bazán I.L. Peretz Oscar Wilde Alphonse Allais Artur Azevedo Georges Courteline Anton Chekhov O. Henry Israel Zangwill João Simões Lopes Neto Tristan Bernard Stephen Leacock Saki G.K. Chesterton Damon Runyon João do Rio Lima Barreto Arkady Averchenko Monteiro Lobato Jaroslav Hašek Franz Kafka Karel Čapek Groucho Marx Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Dorothy Parker José de Almada Negreiros Aníbal Machado F. Scott Fitzgerald Paulo Corrêa Lopes Antônio de Alcântara Machado João Alphonsus Felisberto Hernández Witold Gombrowicz Charles Lamb Graham Greene Dino Buzzati Alberto Moravia Carlo Manzoni Nelson Rodrigues Julio Cortázar José Cândido de Carvalho Vlas Doroshevich Augusto Monterroso Fernando Sabino Millôr Fernandes Dalton Trevisan Julio Ramón Ribeyro Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares Victor Giudice Luis Fernando Verissimo Moacyr Scliar João Ubaldo Ribeiro	5	1 read
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays Charles Lamb	0	0 reads
Os Melhores Contos Fantásticos Wu Cheng'en Mary Lamb Nathaniel Hawthorne E.T.A. Hoffmann Prosper Mérimée Robert Louis Stevenson Théophile Gautier Heinrich Heine Mary Shelley Guy de Maupassant Ivan Turgenev I.A. Ireland Edgar Allan Poe Anton Chekhov Charles Dickens Honoré de Balzac Hans Christian Andersen F. Marion Crawford Charles Baudelaire Marcel Schwob Guillaume Apollinaire Saki Horacio Quiroga Franz Kafka Rudyard Kipling Anatole France Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Oscar Wilde Ambrose Bierce Léon Bloy Leopoldo Lugones Jorge Luis Borges Julio Cortázar Dino Buzzati Manuel Bernardes Machado de Assis Aluísio Azevedo Afonso Arinos Eça de Queirós Raul Brandão João Guimarães Rosa Murilo Rubião Duílio Gomes Charles Lamb Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Lafcadio Hearn	0	0 reads
Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb Charles Lamb	0	1 read
Selected Prose Charles Lamb	0	1 read
CHILDHOOD CLASSICS - Ultimate Collection CHILDHOOD CLASSICS - Ultimate Collection J.M. Barrie Louisa May Alcott Lewis Carroll George MacDonald Kenneth Grahame Beatrix Potter Thornton W. Burgess Margery Williams Bianco Ruth Stiles Gannett Howard Roger Garis Rudyard Kipling Hugh Lofting E.T.A. Hoffmann Vishnu Sharma Aesop Hans Christian Andersen Jacob Grimm Edith Nesbit L. Frank Baum Andrew Lang Nathaniel Hawthorne Oscar Wilde Evelyn Sharp Maurice Maeterlinck Georgette Leblanc John Ruskin Carl Sandburg Mrs. Molesworth Johnny Gruelle Carlo Collodi George Haven Putnam Johanna Spyri Frances Hodgson Burnett Emerson Hough Eleanor H. Porter Kate Douglas Wiggin Dorothy Canfield Fisher Susan Coolidge Gertrude Chandler Warner Mark Twain John Meade Falkner Thomas Bailey Aldrich Charles Lamb Mary Lamb Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Daniel Defoe Harriet Beecher Stowe Anna Sewell Jack London Elmer Boyd Smith Jennie Hall Howard Pyle Marion St. John Webb Jules Verne Eva March Tappan Wilhelm Grimm Jonathan Swift Robert Louis Stevenson	0	0 reads
The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition: The Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf Plato Marcus Aurelius William Shakespeare Benjamin Franklin Homer Friedrich Schiller William Makepeace Thackeray John Ruskin Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe Henry David Thoreau Voltaire Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Thomas Hobbes John Woolman William Penn Epictetus Francis Bacon Thomas Browne Ralph Waldo Emerson Augustine of Hippo Thomas à Kempis Aeschylus Sophocles Aristophanes Marcus Tullius Cicero Pliny the Younger Adam Smith Charles Darwin Plutarch Virgil Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Bunyan Izaak Walton Aesop Wilhelm Grimm Jacob Grimm Hans Christian Andersen John Dryden Richard Brinsley Sheridan David Garrick Oliver Goldsmith Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning Lord Byron Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christopher Marlowe Dante Alighieri Alessandro Manzoni Richard Henry Dana Jr. John Stuart Mill Thomas Carlyle Pedro Calderón de la Barca Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Molière Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Philip Sidney Ben Jonson Abraham Cowley Joseph Addison Richard Steele Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe Samuel Johnson David Hume Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Hazlitt Leigh Hunt Thomas Babington Macaulay James Russell Lowell Michael Faraday Hermann von Helmholtz Simon Newcomb Archibald Geikie Benvenuto Cellini Michel de Montaigne Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Ernest Renan Giuseppe Mazzini Herodotus Tacitus Francis Drake Philip Nichols Francis Pretty Walter Bigges Edward Haies Walter Raleigh René Descartes Jean Froissart Thomas Malory William Henry Harrison Niccolò Machiavelli William Roper Thomas More Martin Luther John Locke George Berkeley Hippocrates Ambroise Paré William Harvey Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Joseph Lister Louis Pasteur Thomas Dekker Francis Beaumont John Fletcher Philip Massinger Blaise Pascal William A. Neilson John Milton Robert Burns Euripides Edmund Burke Sydney Smith Charles Lamb Thomas De Quincey John Webster	0	0 reads
The Read-Aloud Treasury, Vol. 1 The Read-Aloud Treasury, Vol. 1 Kenneth Grahame Mary Lamb George MacDonald Edith Nesbit Eleanor H. Porter Johanna Spyri Kate Douglas Wiggin Frances Hodgson Burnett Lucy Maud Montgomery Charles Lamb	0	0 reads
Harvard Classics Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Thomas Carlyle Theodor Storm Plato Theodor Fontane René Descartes Gottfried Keller Mark Twain Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Henry James Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Addison Jane Austen John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Alphonse Daudet Thomas De Quincey Guy de Maupassant George Eliot Walter Scott Laurence Sterne Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana Henry Fielding John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca Bret Harte George Sand John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Washington Irving Izaak Walton John Bunyan Juan Valera Alfred de Musset James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Nathaniel Hawthorne Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Edward Everett Hale Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Sophocles Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Ivan Turgenev Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Charles W. Eliot Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson Honoré Balzac Alexander L. Kielland Niccolò Machiavelli	0	0 reads
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb The Best Letters of Charles Lamb Charles Lamb	0	0 reads
The Complete Harvard Classics Shelf The Complete Harvard Classics Shelf: 51 Volumes of Essential Classics + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf ... Works of Fiction from Antics to Modern Age Plato Epictetus Marcus Aurelius Francis Bacon John Milton Thomas Browne Benjamin Franklin John Woolman William Penn Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Burns Augustine of Hippo Thomas à Kempis Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes Marcus Tullius Cicero Pliny the Younger Adam Smith Charles Darwin Plutarch Virgil Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Bunyan Izaak Walton Aesop Wilhelm Grimm Hans Christian Andersen John Dryden Richard Brinsley Sheridan David Garrick Oliver Goldsmith Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning Lord Byron Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christopher Marlowe Dante Alighieri Alessandro Manzoni Homer Richard Henry Dana Jr. Edmund Burke John Stuart Mill Thomas Carlyle Pedro Calderón de la Barca Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Molière Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Friedrich Schiller Philip Sidney Ben Jonson Abraham Cowley Joseph Addison Richard Steele Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe Samuel Johnson David Hume Sydney Smith Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Hazlitt Leigh Hunt Charles Lamb Thomas De Quincey Thomas Babington Macaulay William Makepeace Thackeray John Ruskin Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe Henry David Thoreau James Russell Lowell Michael Faraday Hermann von Helmholtz Simon Newcomb Archibald Geikie Benvenuto Cellini Michel de Montaigne Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Ernest Renan Immanuel Kant Giuseppe Mazzini Herodotus Tacitus Francis Drake Philip Nichols Francis Pretty Walter Bigges Edward Haies Walter Raleigh René Descartes Voltaire Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Hobbes Jean Froissart Thomas Malory William Henry Harrison Niccolò Machiavelli William Roper Thomas More Martin Luther John Locke George Berkeley Hippocrates Ambroise Paré William Harvey Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Joseph Lister Louis Pasteur William Shakespeare Thomas Dekker Francis Beaumont John Fletcher John Webster Philip Massinger Blaise Pascal William A. Neilson Henry Fielding Laurence Sterne Jane Austen Walter Scott George Eliot Nathaniel Hawthorne Washington Irving Bret Harte Mark Twain Edward Everett Hale Henry James Victor Hugo Honoré de Balzac George Sand Alfred de Musset Alphonse Daudet Guy de Maupassant Gottfried Keller Theodor Storm Theodor Fontane Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Ivan Turgenev Juan Valera Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Alexander L. Kielland	0	0 reads
Satan In Search Of A Wife: With The Whole Process Of His Courtship, And Who Danced At The Wedding Charles Lamb	0	0 reads
The Adventures Of Ulysses Charles Lamb	0	1 read
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig Other Essays Charles Lamb	0	0 reads
A Midsummer Night's Dream Charles Lamb Mary Lamb	3	1 read
War in a Stringbag Charles Lamb	0	0 reads
McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader	0	0 reads
Rosamund Gray Charles Lamb	0	0 reads