William Tell Told Again
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William Tell
William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. His legend is recorded in a late 15th century Swiss chronicle....
legend in prose
Prose
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and verse
Poetry
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, with illustrations. The main, prose element was written by P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
, while Philip Dadd supplied the frontispiece
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and 15 full-page illustrations, all in colour. The 15 illustrations were accompanied by verses written by John W. Houghton.
The book was published on 11 November 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London
London
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, and was dedicated "to Biddy O'Sullivan for a Christmas present". Although Wodehouse dedicated books to 43 different people, the identity of "Biddy O'Sullivan" was not known until 2006, when she was identified as the young daughter of one Denis O'Sullivan (1869-1908), an actor and singer who was a friend of Wodehouse in the early 1900s.
The Wodehouse text of William Tell Told Again was reprinted, without the verses and with different illustrations, by "Bowyer", in an anthology, The Favourite Wonder Book, in 1938.
External links
- The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with photos of book covers
- Free eBook of William Tell Told Again at Project GutenbergProject GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...