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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... sisters, and in 1803 hetraveled to Montreal. He had never hadarobust constitution. When, early in 1804, his health seemedtobe declining, his family decidedto send himtoEurope for the sea air, a change of scene and a.
... sisters, and in 1803 hetraveled to Montreal. He had never hadarobust constitution. When, early in 1804, his health seemedtobe declining, his family decidedto send himtoEurope for the sea air, a change of scene and a.
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Charles Neider. for the sea air, a change of scene and a rounding out of his education. He sailed from New York in May at the age of twenty one. He visited France, mainlandItaly, Sicily, Switzerland and London. He returned to New ...
Charles Neider. for the sea air, a change of scene and a rounding out of his education. He sailed from New York in May at the age of twenty one. He visited France, mainlandItaly, Sicily, Switzerland and London. He returned to New ...
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... scenes throughwhich I have passed in Europehavepushed eachother out ofplace successively and alternately faded away from my mind, while the scenes and.
... 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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... scenes. “Some prepared the middaymeal, while others reposed underthe shade of the trees,in luxurious summer indolence, looking drowsily forth upon thebeauty ofthe scene. Ontheoneside were thehighlands, vast and cragged, feathered ...
... scenes. “Some prepared the middaymeal, while others reposed underthe shade of the trees,in luxurious summer indolence, looking drowsily forth upon thebeauty ofthe scene. Ontheoneside were thehighlands, vast and cragged, feathered ...
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... scene. Where were the comforting essays and sketches, the easy changes ofpace, the sense that realitywas essentially gentle? And he hadgonetoofar inhis preoccupation with theartof short fiction, he hadseemingly forgotten himself or had ...
... scene. Where were the comforting essays and sketches, the easy changes ofpace, the sense that realitywas essentially gentle? And he hadgonetoofar inhis preoccupation with theartof short fiction, he hadseemingly forgotten himself or had ...
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