About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Bab Ballads, The New Journalism, Nowa Huta. Okruchy ycia i meandry historii, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Death in the Woods, An Eton Poetry Book, Selva Lirica, Literature from the "Axis of Evil," Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Stories of Strength, The Vengeance Trilogy, Patristic anthology, Decades of the New World, Revolutionary Voices, Stranger than Fiction: True Stories, Tales of Zorro, Operation Homecoming, McOndo, Love Letters of Great Men, No Land! No House! No Vote!, Mirabilis Liber, Athena-Artemis, The Monument of Matrones, Fasciculus Chemicus, Reading Myself and Others, Bamboo Among the Oaks, Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rosetta Code, In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition, The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women, A Gathering of Spirit, Chrestomathy, Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, Beware!, Schott's Miscellany, Growing Up Asian in Australia, Avery Anthology, The Three Sketchys, Shop Talk, Warriors, Catch the Beat, The Book Club Bible, From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, Paperweight, Wild Ducks Flying Backward, The War Against Cliche, List of Pali Canon anthologies, Feelings, The Friend Who Got Away, Strange Eggs, Oasis, Voices of Ghana, Lubab ul-Albab, Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, The Best American Science Writing, The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Excerpt: The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a r...