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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... thoughts and feelings instead of imitating approved models . Obviously congruent with the democratic ethos , Channing's doctrine of aesthetic free- dom and self - reliance was to begin to exert a strong influence on American literature ...
... thoughts and feelings instead of imitating approved models . Obviously congruent with the democratic ethos , Channing's doctrine of aesthetic free- dom and self - reliance was to begin to exert a strong influence on American literature ...
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... thought is liveliest when it questions attitudes , doubts illu- sions , deflates pretensions - his own among them . At the same time the high authority of English taste in early nineteenth - century American culture obviously made him ...
... thought is liveliest when it questions attitudes , doubts illu- sions , deflates pretensions - his own among them . At the same time the high authority of English taste in early nineteenth - century American culture obviously made him ...
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... thought I , must therefore be as superior to a great man of America , as a peak of the Alps to a highland of the Hudson ; and in this idea I was confirmed by observing the comparative importance and swelling magnitude of many English ...
... thought I , must therefore be as superior to a great man of America , as a peak of the Alps to a highland of the Hudson ; and in this idea I was confirmed by observing the comparative importance and swelling magnitude of many English ...
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... thoughts and feelings ; sometimes treating of scenes before him ; sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering back with his recollections to his native country . " These are Crayon's own words about himself in his ...
... thoughts and feelings ; sometimes treating of scenes before him ; sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering back with his recollections to his native country . " These are Crayon's own words about himself in his ...
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... thoughts and feel- ings " of a particular personality , the warning ironically suggests underlying connections . Irving omitted the " Prospectus " from the finished book . But what makes it " finished " is the reader's sense that in the ...
... thoughts and feel- ings " of a particular personality , the warning ironically suggests underlying connections . Irving omitted the " Prospectus " from the finished book . But what makes it " finished " is the reader's sense that in the ...
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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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