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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

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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

Cover of English and Scottish Popular Ballads
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
Contents (14)
  1. Opening about 59 min
  2. Appendix under 1 min
  3. Part I about 2 min
  4. Part II about 2 min
  5. Part III about 2 h 43 min
  6. Appendix about 48 min
  7. Appendix about 44 min
  8. Appendix about 3 h 20 min
  9. III. , sc. 6 about 1 min
  10. V. , sc. iii; Dyce, p. 226 about 6 h 14 min
  11. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 7 of 10) about 5 h 28 min
  12. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 8 of 10) about 5 h 10 min
  13. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 9 of 10) about 2 h 51 min
  14. Appendix about 1 h 12 min