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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... oneof Irving's finest, most genial and graceful inspirations, prefigures the art of Chekhov in its allusiveness ... One of the effects.
... oneof Irving's finest, most genial and graceful inspirations, prefigures the art of Chekhov in its allusiveness ... One of the effects.
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... one of Irving's lessfortunate productions. Fm at a loss to explain his errorsof judgment and taste inthemaking or even the attempting ofit. The setting is foreign andoverromantic even for the highly romantic and at times sentimental ...
... one of Irving's lessfortunate productions. Fm at a loss to explain his errorsof judgment and taste inthemaking or even the attempting ofit. The setting is foreign andoverromantic even for the highly romantic and at times sentimental ...
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... one of those incessant questioners, who have a craving, unhealthy appetite in conversation. He never seemed satisfied withthe whole of a story; never laughedwhenothers laughed; but always putthe joke tothe question. Henever could ...
... one of those incessant questioners, who have a craving, unhealthy appetite in conversation. He never seemed satisfied withthe whole of a story; never laughedwhenothers laughed; but always putthe joke tothe question. Henever could ...
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... one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill 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 ...
... one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill 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 ...
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... one of those transient thundershowers whichoften takeplace inmountain heights,heproceeded. Passing through the ravine,they cameto a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which ...
... one of those transient thundershowers whichoften takeplace inmountain heights,heproceeded. Passing through the ravine,they cameto a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which ...
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