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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... strange in literature; as a kind of demisavage, witha feather in hishand instead ofonhishead; and therewasa curiosityto hearwhat such a being hadto sayabout civilized society. . . . Having been born and brought up in anew country,yet ...
... strange in literature; as a kind of demisavage, witha feather in hishand instead ofonhishead; and therewasa curiosityto hearwhat such a being hadto sayabout civilized society. . . . Having been born and brought up in anew country,yet ...
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... strange conclusions, manyof them false. In “The Legend ofSleepyHollow” he senses the thinness of Time in his country whenhewrites, “In this byplace of nature, there abode, ina remote period of American history,that istosay, some ...
... strange conclusions, manyof them false. In “The Legend ofSleepyHollow” he senses the thinness of Time in his country whenhewrites, “In this byplace of nature, there abode, ina remote period of American history,that istosay, some ...
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... Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman”, are essentially virtuoso pieces, whose content is not considerable but whose displayof mastery of the short form of fiction,aform Irving was stillperfecting, is very impressive. He is interested ...
... Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman”, are essentially virtuoso pieces, whose content is not considerable but whose displayof mastery of the short form of fiction,aform Irving was stillperfecting, is very impressive. He is interested ...
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... Strange Stories” are a kind of droll joke played on the reader,who hasbeen promised, by hints, a budget of ghost stories butwho is led by the nose and “taken”—that is, given only spoofs of suchstories. Irving,enjoying his technical ...
... Strange Stories” are a kind of droll joke played on the reader,who hasbeen promised, by hints, a budget of ghost stories butwho is led by the nose and “taken”—that is, given only spoofs of suchstories. Irving,enjoying his technical ...
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... strange notions. Arow of timberheads, blackened bytime,just peered above the surface at high water; but atlowtide a considerable part ofthe hull was bare, and its great ribs or timbers, partly stripped oftheir planks, and dripping with ...
... strange notions. Arow of timberheads, blackened bytime,just peered above the surface at high water; but atlowtide a considerable part ofthe hull was bare, and its great ribs or timbers, partly stripped oftheir planks, and dripping with ...
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