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The Bab Ballads - cover

The Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert

Publisher: Good Press

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"The Bab Ballads" by W. S. Gilbert is a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. The collection contains: The Advent of Spring, The Cattle Show, The Cattle Show, Sixty-Three and Sixty-Four, The Dream, The Baron Klopfzetterheim, Down to the Derby, Something Like Nonsense Verses, Ode to my Clothes, The Student, Tempora Mutantur, The Bachelors' Strike, A Bad Night Of It, To Phœbe, Ozone, To the Terrestrial Globe, The Monkey in Trouble, and Back Again! among many others.
Available since: 11/22/2019.
Print length: 177 pages.

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