The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentPenguin, 1999 - 339 страници Before the fall premiere of the new television series, read the original legend of Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman, and the singularly spooky town of Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irving's classic book When Washington Irving first published this collection of essays, sketches, and tales?originally entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.?readers greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author. This volume includes "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," two of America's most recognizable and loved works of fiction and displays Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them. And it is on the basis of these two classic tales that Irving is generally credited with inventing the short story as a distinct literary genre. Also included here are gently ironic pieces about life in England that reflect the author's interest in the traditions of the Old World and his longings for his home in the New. |
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... author of Washington Irving . An American Study , 1802-1832 ( 1965 ) and numerous essays on Washington Irving , and coauthor - editor of Land and Imagination : The American Rural Dream ( 1980 ) . He taught English and history at Goucher ...
... author of Washington Irving . An American Study , 1802-1832 ( 1965 ) and numerous essays on Washington Irving , and coauthor - editor of Land and Imagination : The American Rural Dream ( 1980 ) . He taught English and history at Goucher ...
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... AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF vii xxiii 3 8 THE VOYAGE ROSCOE 11 16 THE WIFE RIP VAN WINKLE ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND THE BROKEN HEART 22 28 43 50 56 THE ART OF BOOK MAKING 61 A ROYAL POET 67 THE COUNTRY CHURCH 79 ...
... AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF vii xxiii 3 8 THE VOYAGE ROSCOE 11 16 THE WIFE RIP VAN WINKLE ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND THE BROKEN HEART 22 28 43 50 56 THE ART OF BOOK MAKING 61 A ROYAL POET 67 THE COUNTRY CHURCH 79 ...
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... author / editor matches the blatant ego ( ec ) centricity of an earlier Irving persona , the addlepated Diedrich ... authors and texts , above all without Crayon's pilgrimages to the Boar's Head Tavern and Stratford - on - Avon ...
... author / editor matches the blatant ego ( ec ) centricity of an earlier Irving persona , the addlepated Diedrich ... authors and texts , above all without Crayon's pilgrimages to the Boar's Head Tavern and Stratford - on - Avon ...
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... author , British critics began to find other American books generally more acceptable , a development which encouraged American readers to take native authors more seriously . High literacy rates in the United States and a rapidly ...
... author , British critics began to find other American books generally more acceptable , a development which encouraged American readers to take native authors more seriously . High literacy rates in the United States and a rapidly ...
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... authors . . . . " The Edin- burgh Review noted with pleasure that Irving had modeled his " diction " on " the most elegant and polished of our native writers . " It hoped that other Americans would follow his example . Dana , however ...
... authors . . . . " The Edin- burgh Review noted with pleasure that Irving had modeled his " diction " on " the most elegant and polished of our native writers . " It hoped that other Americans would follow his example . Dana , however ...
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THE VOYAGE | 11 |
ROSCOE | 16 |
THE WIFE | 22 |
RIP VAN WINKLE | 29 |
ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA | 43 |
RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND | 50 |
THE BROKEN HEART | 56 |
THE ART OF BOOK MAKING | 61 |
THE STAGE COACH | 153 |
CHRISTMAS EVE | 159 |
CHRISTMAS DAY | 169 |
THE CHRISTMAS DINNER | 180 |
LONDON ANTIQUES | 192 |
LITTLE BRITAIN | 197 |
STRATFORDONAVON | 209 |
TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER | 225 |
A ROYAL POET | 67 |
THE COUNTRY CHURCH | 79 |
THE WIDOW AND HER SON | 83 |
A SUNDAY IN LONDON | 89 |
THE BOARS HEAD TAVERN EAST CHEAP | 91 |
THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE | 100 |
RURAL FUNERALS | 109 |
THE INN KITCHEN | 119 |
THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM | 121 |
WESTMINSTER ABBEY | 134 |
Christmas | 147 |
PHILIP OF POKANOKET | 234 |
JOHN BULL | 248 |
THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE | 257 |
THE ANGLER | 264 |
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW | 272 |
LENVOY | 298 |
PROSPECTUS TO THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION | 301 |
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST BRITISH EDITION | 303 |
NOTES | 305 |
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