The Complete Tales Of Washington IrvingHachette Books, 09/09/2009 - 840 من الصفحات Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo, and irony that transforms his fiction into virtuoso performances, earning him his reputation as the father of the American short story. Charles Neider has gathered all sixty-one of Irving's tales, originally scattered throughout his many collections of nonfiction essays and sketches, into one magnificent volume. Together, they reveal his wide range: besides the expected classics like "Rip Van Winkle," "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and "The Devil and Tom Walker," his fiction embraces realistic tales, ghost stories, parodies, legends, fables, and satires. For those familiar only with secondhand retellings of Irving's most famous tales, this collection offers the opportunity to step inside Washington Irving's imagination and partake of its innumerable and timeless pleasures. |
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الصفحة xiv
... mind entirely abstracted from other cares and occupations, if I would write much or write well. I should therefore at Washington be completely out of my element, and instead of adding to my reputation, stand a chance of impairing that ...
... mind entirely abstracted from other cares and occupations, if I would write much or write well. I should therefore at Washington be completely out of my element, and instead of adding to my reputation, stand a chance of impairing that ...
الصفحة xv
... mind depends upon them; and I am easily thrown into such a state of perplexity and such depression as to incapacitate me for any mental exertion. Do not, I beseech you, impute my lingering in Europe to any indifference to my own country ...
... mind depends upon them; and I am easily thrown into such a state of perplexity and such depression as to incapacitate me for any mental exertion. Do not, I beseech you, impute my lingering in Europe to any indifference to my own country ...
الصفحة xvii
... mind was early filled with historical and poetical associations, connected with places, and manners, and customs of Europe, but which could rarely be applied to those of my own country. To a mind thus peculiarly prepared, the most ...
... mind was early filled with historical and poetical associations, connected with places, and manners, and customs of Europe, but which could rarely be applied to those of my own country. To a mind thus peculiarly prepared, the most ...
الصفحة xix
... mind, while the scenes and friends of my youth alone remain fixed in my memory and my affections with their original strength and freshness." From 1826 to 1829, enthralled by his work on Spanish subjects and materials, he traveled in ...
... mind, while the scenes and friends of my youth alone remain fixed in my memory and my affections with their original strength and freshness." From 1826 to 1829, enthralled by his work on Spanish subjects and materials, he traveled in ...
الصفحة xxiv
... mind. The story, with its foreign setting (Honileur in lower Normandy), might easily have been diiluse, its psychology maudlin. Instead it is tightly woven, its texture fine, its details vivid, excellent. In “Dolph Heyliger” Irving is ...
... mind. The story, with its foreign setting (Honileur in lower Normandy), might easily have been diiluse, its psychology maudlin. Instead it is tightly woven, its texture fine, its details vivid, excellent. In “Dolph Heyliger” Irving is ...
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THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM | 17 |
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW | 31 |
THE STOUT GENTLEMAN | 57 |
THE STUDENT OF SALAMANGA | 66 |
ANNETTE DELARBRE | 122 |
DOLPH HEYLIGER | 139 |
Strange Stories lay a N ervons Gentleman | 195 |
LEGEND OF PRINCE AHMED AL KAMEL | 512 |
LEGEND OF THE MOORS LEGACY | 536 |
LEGEND OF THE THREE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESSES | 557 |
LEGEND OF THE ROSE OF THE ALHAMBRA | 574 |
THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY | 586 |
GOVERNOR MANCO AND THE SOLDIER | 593 |
LEGEND OP THE TWO DISCREET STATUES | 606 |
SPANISH ROMANCE | 620 |
THE ADVENTURE OF MY UNCLE | 201 |
Grandfather | 215 |
ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT | 223 |
Buckthorne and H is Friends | 267 |
MAN | 337 |
The Italian Banditti | 359 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGLISHMAN | 421 |
oneyDiggers | 429 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MASON | 491 |
WOLFERTS ROOST | 640 |
THE CREOLE VILLAGE | 654 |
THE WIDOWS ORDEAL | 693 |
A CONTENTED MAN | 717 |
THE EARLY EXPERIENCES OP RALPH RINGWOOD | 732 |
THE COUNT VAN HORN | 758 |
LEGEND OP THE ENGULPHED CONVENT | 777 |
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