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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... living ) and the United States , won him immediate acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic and established a demand for his work . Foreign travel inspired much of his writing . Between 1822 and 1832 he issued three more collections of ...
... living ) and the United States , won him immediate acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic and established a demand for his work . Foreign travel inspired much of his writing . Between 1822 and 1832 he issued three more collections of ...
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... in the face of the frequent re- minders he has of the " mutability " of earthly things , to hold firm to the idea of Shakespeare's universal appeal . Irving had been living and traveling in England for almost vii INTRODUCTION.
... in the face of the frequent re- minders he has of the " mutability " of earthly things , to hold firm to the idea of Shakespeare's universal appeal . Irving had been living and traveling in England for almost vii INTRODUCTION.
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... living and traveling in England for almost five years when he brought the work out , but his actual experience of the country is filtered through the screen of Crayon's obsessive bookishness . Surprisingly , contem- porary readers in ...
... living and traveling in England for almost five years when he brought the work out , but his actual experience of the country is filtered through the screen of Crayon's obsessive bookishness . Surprisingly , contem- porary readers in ...
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... living by writing . Indeed , he had not even made a serious attempt to become a professional writer until he began The Sketch Book . Few Americans at this point had . Preju- dices in part derived from Puritanism still persisted in some ...
... living by writing . Indeed , he had not even made a serious attempt to become a professional writer until he began The Sketch Book . Few Americans at this point had . Preju- dices in part derived from Puritanism still persisted in some ...
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... living world , he finds himself alone contemplating the dead . His sense of the past doubles as a sensitivity to the passing of time . Why else does he so often join passing funeral processions ? Mutability is the shadow that walks ...
... living world , he finds himself alone contemplating the dead . His sense of the past doubles as a sensitivity to the passing of time . Why else does he so often join passing funeral processions ? Mutability is the shadow that walks ...
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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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