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English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Edited by Francis James Child · Public domain text
421,473 words · about 29 h 31 min to read

About this edition
The text of English and Scottish Popular Ballads comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #71104, cataloged there as “The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)”. It is in English and public domain in the United States. Edited by Francis James Child. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built
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About this book

- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Ballads, English › England › Texts, Ballads, Scots › Scotland › Texts
- Length
- 421,473 words · about 29 h 31 min
- Sections
- 14 reader sections · Table of contents
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #71104
Contents (14)
- Opening about 59 min
- Appendix under 1 min
- Part I about 2 min
- Part II about 2 min
- Part III about 2 h 43 min
- Appendix about 48 min
- Appendix about 44 min
- Appendix about 3 h 20 min
- III. , sc. 6 about 1 min
- V. , sc. iii; Dyce, p. 226 about 6 h 14 min
- English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 7 of 10) about 5 h 28 min
- English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 8 of 10) about 5 h 10 min
- English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 9 of 10) about 2 h 51 min
- Appendix about 1 h 12 min
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