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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... favorites on both sides of the Atlantic. “Rip VanWinkle” was successfully staged, with Joseph Jefferson, a leading American actor ofthe nineteenth century, performing the role ofRip. In away thetalewas personally prophetic, for, as we ...
... favorites on both sides of the Atlantic. “Rip VanWinkle” was successfully staged, with Joseph Jefferson, a leading American actor ofthe nineteenth century, performing the role ofRip. In away thetalewas personally prophetic, for, as we ...
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... favorite amongallthe good wives ofthe village, who,as usual withthe amiable sex, tookhis part inallfamily squabbles; and neverfailed, whenever theytalked those matters overintheir evening gossipings, to lay allthe blame on Dame ...
... favorite amongallthe good wives ofthe village, who,as usual withthe amiable sex, tookhis part inallfamily squabbles; and neverfailed, whenever theytalked those matters overintheir evening gossipings, to lay allthe blame on Dame ...
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... favorite sport of squirrelshooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Pantingandfatigued, hethrew himself, late in theafternoon, on a greenknoll, covered with mountain herbage, thatcrowned the ...
... favorite sport of squirrelshooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Pantingandfatigued, hethrew himself, late in theafternoon, on a greenknoll, covered with mountain herbage, thatcrowned the ...
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... favorite aresortthe kitchen ofa country inn is to the middleand inferior order of travellers; particularly in that equivocal kind of weather, whenafire becomes agreeable toward evening. Ithrew aside the newspaper, and explored myway to ...
... favorite aresortthe kitchen ofa country inn is to the middleand inferior order of travellers; particularly in that equivocal kind of weather, whenafire becomes agreeable toward evening. Ithrew aside the newspaper, and explored myway to ...
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... favorite scene of her gambols. Thedominant spirit, however, thathaunts thisenchanted region, and seemsto be commanderinchief of allthepowersof theair, is the apparition ofa figure on horseback without ahead.It is said by some tobe ...
... favorite scene of her gambols. Thedominant spirit, however, thathaunts thisenchanted region, and seemsto be commanderinchief of allthepowersof theair, is the apparition ofa figure on horseback without ahead.It is said by some tobe ...
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