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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... windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks. In that same village, and inone of these very houses (which,to tell the precise truth, was sadly timeworn and weatherbeaten), there lived,many years sinceywhilethe country was yeta ...
... windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks. In that same village, and inone of these very houses (which,to tell the precise truth, was sadly timeworn and weatherbeaten), there lived,many years sinceywhilethe country was yeta ...
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... windows—everything was strange.His mindnow misgave him;he beganto doubt whether both heand the worldaround himwere not bewitched.Surely this was his native village, whichhehad left but thedaybefore. There stood the Kaatskill mountains ...
... windows—everything was strange.His mindnow misgave him;he beganto doubt whether both heand the worldaround himwere not bewitched.Surely this was his native village, whichhehad left but thedaybefore. There stood the Kaatskill mountains ...
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... window, fellinto her arms. When she looked again, thespectre had disappeared. Of the two females, the aunt now required themost soothing, for she was perfectly beside herself with terror. As tothe younglady, there wassomething, even in ...
... window, fellinto her arms. When she looked again, thespectre had disappeared. Of the two females, the aunt now required themost soothing, for she was perfectly beside herself with terror. As tothe younglady, there wassomething, even in ...
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... window—had wooed—had won—had borne away in triumph —and, in a word, hadwedded the fair. Under any other circumstances thebaron would havebeen inflexible,for hewastenacious ofpaternal authority,and devoutly obstinate in all family feuds ...
... window—had wooed—had won—had borne away in triumph —and, in a word, hadwedded the fair. Under any other circumstances thebaron would havebeen inflexible,for hewastenacious ofpaternal authority,and devoutly obstinate in all family feuds ...
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... window!—How often was heappalledbysome shrubcovered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre,beset his very path!— How often did he shrink with curdling awe atthe sound of hisown steps ona frosty crust beneath his feet;and dreadto ...
... window!—How often was heappalledbysome shrubcovered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre,beset his very path!— How often did he shrink with curdling awe atthe sound of hisown steps ona frosty crust beneath his feet;and dreadto ...
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