A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English learners who want to close-read classic English essays
- General readers interested in essays on food culture
- Teachers of English and American literature who need classroom material
- Readers who enjoy humorous, ironic prose
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a systematic history of food or a cookbook
- Beginners who need a modern Chinese translation
- Readers who prefer fast-paced narrative
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the story, then read closely paragraph by paragraph, marking instances of irony and exaggeration.
- Read alongside a Chinese translation and compare how Lamb's sentences are handled in the two languages.
- After reading, try retelling its "scholarly" logic in two hundred words and savour the fun of the parody.
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) was an English essayist and poet, born in London and long employed by the East India Company. He is best known for the Essays of Elia, written under the pen name Elia, whose intimate, humorous and highly personal style made him an important prose writer of the English Romantic period. With his sister Mary Lamb he co-authored Tales from Shakespeare, a children's book that retold Shakespeare's plays as highly readable stories and became widely popular. The library holds five of his works, including A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, The Adventures of Ulysses, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4, and A Masque of Days, spanning essays, letters, retold stories and poetry and showing the range of his writing.
