Wagner Opera Stories, by Barber, Grace Edson
Inventory #: 00652
Price: $10.00

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Wagner Opera Stories, by Barber, Grace Edson. Public-School Publishing Co.: Bloomington, Illinois, 1906. Edition: Later printing. Hardcover, 191 pages. Gray cloth with blue lettering on spine; title in gray in blue shield on cover. Illustrated with seven plates, all present.

Condition: Good, no jacket. Spine ends and corners bumped, cover spoiled and worn, page edges darkened, spine cracked, but all pages secure. Some foxing, especially on page adjacent to plates. Former owner's stamp on first free end paper, and a few pencil notations of former prices. (This book has been sold a few times in the last 100 years!)

Contents: The stories of Wagnerian opera, told in English, in a simple manner to educate children. Probably written for middle-school children, but a nice resource for the person of any age who would like a synopsis of these classic opera stories. The operas included:

1. The Rhine-Gold
2. The Walkure, or the Story of Brunhilde
3. Siegfried I
4. Siegfried II
5. The Gotterdammerung
6. Parsifal I
7. Parsifal II