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Paperback The Beggar's Opera and Polly Book

ISBN: 0199642222

ISBN13: 9780199642229

The Beggar's Opera and Polly

"Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives."

Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly--published together here for the first time--offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart.

With The Beggar's Opera, John Gay created one...

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