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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... mother diedApril 9, 1817,just afterhe turned thirtyfour. In Augusthe visited Walter Scott,to whom he hada letterof introduction, at Abbotsford in Scotland. Scott, an enthusiastic admirer of the History of New York, excerpts ofwhich he ...
... mother diedApril 9, 1817,just afterhe turned thirtyfour. In Augusthe visited Walter Scott,to whom he hada letterof introduction, at Abbotsford in Scotland. Scott, an enthusiastic admirer of the History of New York, excerpts ofwhich he ...
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... Irving's chief characters, both inhis fiction andin his nonfiction. Possibly because his native land, when hewasan impressionable, sensitive youth, was shorton hoary monuments and traditions as compared with the mother country,
... Irving's chief characters, both inhis fiction andin his nonfiction. Possibly because his native land, when hewasan impressionable, sensitive youth, was shorton hoary monuments and traditions as compared with the mother country,
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Charles Neider. hoary monuments and traditions as compared with the mother country, the country so recently rejected but that nevertheless was his andthat hauntedhim, he was endlessly fascinated bythe effects of Time. It was an artist's ...
Charles Neider. hoary monuments and traditions as compared with the mother country, the country so recently rejected but that nevertheless was his andthat hauntedhim, he was endlessly fascinated bythe effects of Time. It was an artist's ...
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... mother's heels, equipped inapair of his father's castoff galligaskins, which he had much adotohold up with one hand, asafinelady does her train in bad weather. RipVan Winkle, however, was one ofthose happymortals, of foolish, welloiled ...
... mother's heels, equipped inapair of his father's castoff galligaskins, which he had much adotohold up with one hand, asafinelady does her train in bad weather. RipVan Winkle, however, was one ofthose happymortals, of foolish, welloiled ...
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... mother?'” “Oh, she too had died but a short time since; she broke a bloodvessel in afit of passion at aNewEngland pedler.” Therewas adrop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest mancould contain himself no longer. He ...
... mother?'” “Oh, she too had died but a short time since; she broke a bloodvessel in afit of passion at aNewEngland pedler.” Therewas adrop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest mancould contain himself no longer. He ...
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