The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels

Name: The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels
Author: Thomas Ingoldsby

by Thomas Ingoldsby

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Project Gutenberg

Credits

Matthias Grammel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Release date

2019-04-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English wit and humor Humorous poetry, English English poetry -- 19th century English fiction -- 19th century

About the author

Thomas Ingoldsby

1788–1845

Best known for the wildly popular Ingoldsby Legends, this English clergyman and writer mixed ghost stories, comic verse, and folklore into tales that delighted Victorian readers. Writing under a playful pen name, he became famous for turning the macabre into something witty and entertaining.

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