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The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby · Public domain text

177,345 words · about 12 h 25 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

Text only · 27 illustrations omitted. Illustrated source.

About this edition

The text of The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #59236. It is in English and public domain in the United States. Project Gutenberg credits George Cruikshank and John Leech as illustrators. 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

This text-only edition leaves out 27 illustrations. See the illustrated edition at Project Gutenberg.

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Contents (11)
  1. Opening about 5 h 16 min
  2. Act I about 1 min
  3. Act II about 2 min
  4. Act III about 1 min
  5. Act IV about 1 min
  6. Act V about 35 min
  7. Canto II about 1 h
  8. Canto II about 5 h 13 min
  9. Act 1 about 1 min
  10. Act 2 about 1 min
  11. Act 3 about 16 min