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Edith A Browne
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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W S Gilbert
Songs of a Savoyard, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
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W. S. Gilbert (1907) is a biography of the famous English playwright, librettist, and humorist Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, written by Edith A. Browne. The book provides a detailed account…
William S Gilbert
Gilbert, English dramatist and writer of humorous verse, is best remembered as librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. The First Series contains: The Wicked World, Pygmalion and Galatea…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
W. S. Gilbert
Gilbert is an English dramatist and writer of humorous verse. His First Series contains: The Wicked World , Pygmalion and Galatea , Charity , The Princess , The Palace of…
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Professor Reginald Allen,William Schwenck Gilbert
Alan Fischler
Beginning with H.M.S. Pinafore, Fischler demonstrates how W.S. Gilbert made it his business to cater to the sensibilities of the middle class through the structure he imposed on his plots…
W S Gilbert, Sir
The world knows W.S. Gilbert as half of the enduringly popular duo of Gilbert and Sullivan whose comic operas with their ingenious plots and witty songs have delighted audiences. But…
A collection of humorous rhymes by W.S. Gilbert.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This collection, carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the best of these sharp, clever, comical tales - many of which are published here for…
Before he achieved fame as the librettist of comic operas like Pirates of Penzance and H.M.S. Pinafore, W.S. Gilbert was known for his witty and irreverent verse. The Bab Ballads…
Reproduction of the original: The Bad Ballads by W.S Gilbert
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
This delightful play tells the story of Gretchen, a young woman who must choose between two suitors, one of whom is a duke. The play is full of wit and…
More Bab Ballads, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in…
Excerpt: No airy fairy she, As she hangs in arsenic green
The book, Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation…
Gilbert is remembered as librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. Gilbert wrote a large number of ballads for the magazine Fun using his pen-name Bab. These Bab Ballads…
