The Complete Tales Of Washington IrvingHachette Books, 9.09.2009 г. - 840 страници 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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... on their New-Year cakes; and have thus given him a chance for immortality, almost equal to being stamped on a Waterloo Medal, or a Queen Anne's Farthing] HOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are ...
... on their New-Year cakes; and have thus given him a chance for immortality, almost equal to being stamped on a Waterloo Medal, or a Queen Anne's Farthing] HOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are ...
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Charles Neider. cay—the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This ...
Charles Neider. cay—the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This ...
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Charles Neider. the bench at the inn-door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village, and a chronicle of the old times “before the war.” It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be ...
Charles Neider. the bench at the inn-door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village, and a chronicle of the old times “before the war.” It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be ...
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... I saw him, was a very venerable old man, and so perfectly ratiOnal and consistent on every other point, that I think no conscientious person could refuse to take this into the bargain; nay, I have seen a certificate on the subject taken ...
... I saw him, was a very venerable old man, and so perfectly ratiOnal and consistent on every other point, that I think no conscientious person could refuse to take this into the bargain; nay, I have seen a certificate on the subject taken ...
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Charles Neider. and then, about the reputed charms of his bride, and the felicity that awaited him. In this way they had entered among the mountains of the Odenwald, and were traversing one of its most lonely and thickly-wooded passes ...
Charles Neider. and then, about the reputed charms of his bride, and the felicity that awaited him. In this way they had entered among the mountains of the Odenwald, and were traversing one of its most lonely and thickly-wooded passes ...
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THE STUDENT OF SALAMANGA | 66 |
ANNETTE DELARBRE | 122 |
DOLPH HEYLIGER | 139 |
Strange Stories lay a N ervons Gentleman | 195 |
LEGEND OF PRINCE AHMED AL KAMEL | 512 |
LEGEND OF THE MOORS LEGACY | 536 |
LEGEND OF THE THREE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESSES | 557 |
LEGEND OF THE ROSE OF THE ALHAMBRA | 574 |
THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY | 586 |
GOVERNOR MANCO AND THE SOLDIER | 593 |
LEGEND OP THE TWO DISCREET STATUES | 606 |
SPANISH ROMANCE | 620 |
THE ADVENTURE OF MY UNCLE | 201 |
Grandfather | 215 |
ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT | 223 |
Buckthorne and H is Friends | 267 |
MAN | 337 |
The Italian Banditti | 359 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGLISHMAN | 421 |
oneyDiggers | 429 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MASON | 491 |
WOLFERTS ROOST | 640 |
THE CREOLE VILLAGE | 654 |
THE WIDOWS ORDEAL | 693 |
A CONTENTED MAN | 717 |
THE EARLY EXPERIENCES OP RALPH RINGWOOD | 732 |
THE COUNT VAN HORN | 758 |
LEGEND OP THE ENGULPHED CONVENT | 777 |
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