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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... mountains, and they are regarded byall thegood wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they areclothed in blue andpurple, andprint their boldoutlines onthe clearevening sky; butsometimes, when ...
... mountains, and they are regarded byall thegood wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they areclothed in blue andpurple, andprint their boldoutlines onthe clearevening sky; butsometimes, when ...
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... mountains. He was afterhis favorite sport of squirrelshooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Pantingandfatigued, hethrew himself, late in theafternoon, on a greenknoll, covered with mountain ...
... mountains. He was afterhis favorite sport of squirrelshooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Pantingandfatigued, hethrew himself, late in theafternoon, on a greenknoll, covered with mountain ...
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... mountain torrent. As they ascended, Rip everynow and then heard long, rolling peals, like distant thunder,that seemed to issue outof adeep ravine,or rather cleft, between lofty rocks,toward which their rugged path conducted. He paused ...
... mountain torrent. As they ascended, Rip everynow and then heard long, rolling peals, like distant thunder,that seemed to issue outof adeep ravine,or rather cleft, between lofty rocks,toward which their rugged path conducted. He paused ...
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... mountain breeze. “Surely,” thought Rip, “I have not slept here all night”, He recalled the occurrences beforehe fell asleep.The strange man witha kegof liquor—the mountain ravine—the wild retreat amongthe rocks— the woebegone party at ...
... mountain breeze. “Surely,” thought Rip, “I have not slept here all night”, He recalled the occurrences beforehe fell asleep.The strange man witha kegof liquor—the mountain ravine—the wild retreat amongthe rocks— the woebegone party at ...
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... mountain; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow wasnow completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whetherhe washimself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the manin the cocked hat ...
... mountain; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow wasnow completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whetherhe washimself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the manin the cocked hat ...
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