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100 1 _aChild, Francis James,
_d1825-1896
245 1 4 _aThe English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Ballads
500 _aRelease date is 2014-12-17
508 _aProduced by Simon Gardner, Katherine Ward, Alicia Williams, David T. Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 2 (of 5)" by Francis James Child is a scholarly collection published between 1882-1898. This monumental anthology presents 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, meticulously documenting different versions side by side. The ballads explore dark themes including forbidden love, supernatural encounters, family conflict, treachery, murder, and folk heroes like Robin Hood and King Arthur. Child's comprehensive work transformed ballad scholarship, classifying each story with distinctive numbers while preserving multiple variants that reveal how these haunting tales evolved across centuries and communities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aBallads, English -- England -- Texts
653 _aBallads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47692
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