Richard Wagner's Prose Works, Volume 8: Posthumous, etc.

Richard Wagner

Translated by William Ashton Ellis

49 chapters · about 8 h

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The opening

SIEGFRIED'S DEATH

(November 1848).

Siegfrieb’s Sob.

CHARACTERS.

SIEGFRIED. GUNTHER. HAGEN. ALBERICH.

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About this edition

The words
William Ashton Ellis's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 18 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • The library's shelf marks on the scanned copy (2 blocks)
  • The library's accession number
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own), in 2 places
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • The index
  • The printer's imprint (2 blocks)
  • The library's slips and label on the scanned copy (6 blocks)