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The Pinafore Picture Book: the Story of H.M.S. Pinafore

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By W. S. Gilbert
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A comic tale set aboard a well-loved naval vessel, where a kindly captain encourages music and congeniality among his crew. Romantic attachment between a high-spirited young woman and a lowly sailor collides with the ambitions of a self-important political appointee, while a long-buried secret about a childhood exchange complicates loyalties and rank. Swift, witty episodes expose pretension, celebrate earnest feeling, and mock rigid class distinctions through songs, mistaken identities, and farcical confrontations, resolving in revelations that reorder relationships and restore conviviality and social equilibrium aboard the ship.

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Title: The Pinafore Picture Book: the Story of H.M.S. Pinafore

Author: W. S. Gilbert

Composer: Arthur Sullivan

Illustrator: Alice B. Woodward

Release date: May 9, 2021 [eBook #65291]

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Linda Cantoni, Charlene Taylor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

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Transcriber’s Note:
Links in the List of Illustrations are to the illustrations, not the pages listed.
Lyrics in the music notation have been omitted where they are repeated in the main text.
Click on the [Listen] link to hear or download the music in mp3 format and on the [MusicXML] link to download the music notation.

CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

Second Edition. Crown 4to. 5s. net

THE PETER PAN
PICTURE BOOK

THE STORY OF PETER PAN

Retold by DANIEL O’CONNOR

From the Play by J.M. Barrie

WITH 28 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY
ALICE B. WOODWARD

“Miss Woodward’s pictures are really delightful. The whimsical flavour of the fairy play is faithfully reflected, while for rich and harmonious colouring and decorative quality of design they would be difficult to surpass.”—Athenaeum.

“It would be difficult to imagine anything more dainty. The pictures are exquisitely beautiful, and to follow the story in Mr. Daniel O’Connor’s version is almost as fascinating as it was to see Mr. Barrie’s quaint creation on the stage.”—Glasgow Herald.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS