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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... know whether it is the case with other wanderers,but with me, thevarious shifting scenes throughwhich I have passed in Europehavepushed eachother out ofplace successively and alternately faded away from my mind, while the scenes and.
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... passed through aluxuriant bottom of meadow bordered by thickets, where the tall grasswas pressed down intonumerous 'deer beds' wherethose animalshad couchedthe preceding night. Some oaktrees alsobore signs of having been clambered by ...
... passed through aluxuriant bottom of meadow bordered by thickets, where the tall grasswas pressed down intonumerous 'deer beds' wherethose animalshad couchedthe preceding night. Some oaktrees alsobore signs of having been clambered by ...
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... passed.” And the dialogue isfree and easy, and economical and authentic, and not inane, windy andunbelievable as itisin Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. And there isbeauty in the rough spun tale. “The more I knewofa hunter's life, the ...
... passed.” And the dialogue isfree and easy, and economical and authentic, and not inane, windy andunbelievable as itisin Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. And there isbeauty in the rough spun tale. “The more I knewofa hunter's life, the ...
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... passing away, and Ripfelt famished for want ofhis breakfast. He grieved to give up hisdog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; butit would not do to starve among the mountains. He shookhis head,shouldered the ... passed. The very village.
... passing away, and Ripfelt famished for want ofhis breakfast. He grieved to give up hisdog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; butit would not do to starve among the mountains. He shookhis head,shouldered the ... passed. The very village.
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Charles Neider. acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered; it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses whichhehad never seen before, and those which had been hisfamiliarhaunts had disappeared ...
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