Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The World's Best Essays, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 7
Charles and Mary Lamb, joint productions which make it evident that Lamb sought to inspire his sister with his own spirit of hope and cheerfulness. That the Tales from Shakespeare, which will be read with delight by children as long as the language in which they are written remains intelligible, could have been the result of the struggle for self-possession of two supersensitive minds under the constant dread of the recurrence of madness, is one of those miracles of contradiction which glorify human nature and human sanity in the teeth of Lombroso and all others who, having discovered that genius is a neurosis, imagine that it is nothing more.
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