Tales from Shakespeare (Puffin Clothbound Classics) – Charles & Mary Lamb

ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Apr 2022

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First published in 1807, by literary siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, this book has never been out of print, though it seems that Mary did not get her name on the title page till the seventh edition in 1838.

Puffin Clothbound Classics is a series of much-loved stories from classic literature for children and adults, brought together in endurable hardback.

The book contains the following tales:

1. The Tempest (Mary Lamb)
2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mary Lamb)
3. The Winter’s Tale (Mary Lamb)
4. Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb)
5. As You Like It (Mary Lamb)
6. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb)
7. The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb)
8. Cymbeline (Mary Lamb)
9. King Lear (Charles Lamb)
10. Macbeth (Charles Lamb)
11. All’s Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb)
12. The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb)
13. The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb)
14. Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb)
15. Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb)
16. Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb)
17. Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb)
18. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb)
19. Othello (Charles Lamb)
20. Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb)

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