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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Charles Neider. Like Dickens he was the darling of illustrators. Very early the standard litany about him, which still has some currency, tookhold: that he was the firstwriter of hisnativeland to make his living by authorship; the ...
Charles Neider. Like Dickens he was the darling of illustrators. Very early the standard litany about him, which still has some currency, tookhold: that he was the firstwriter of hisnativeland to make his living by authorship; the ...
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Charles Neider. Jeffersonian policies.” He was baptized a Presbyterian. In the years between 1820 and 1824 he ... with John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home.”Irving's TalesofaTraveller appeared inthe summerand fall of1824. Its ...
Charles Neider. Jeffersonian policies.” He was baptized a Presbyterian. In the years between 1820 and 1824 he ... with John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home.”Irving's TalesofaTraveller appeared inthe summerand fall of1824. Its ...
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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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... of suchstories. Irving,enjoying his technical mastery, is deliberately playing with the narrative. Whichreminds one ofMark Twain lecturing, leading his audience along, stalling, windingabout, until they grasp the joke and break up with ...
... of suchstories. Irving,enjoying his technical mastery, is deliberately playing with the narrative. Whichreminds one ofMark Twain lecturing, leading his audience along, stalling, windingabout, until they grasp the joke and break up with ...
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Charles Neider. groups flaunting about them in gaudy dresses, contrasted splendidly with the surrounding darkness; while the uproar of drums, trumpets, fiddles, hautboys, and cymbals, mingledwith the haranguesof theshowmen, the squeaking of ...
Charles Neider. groups flaunting about them in gaudy dresses, contrasted splendidly with the surrounding darkness; while the uproar of drums, trumpets, fiddles, hautboys, and cymbals, mingledwith the haranguesof theshowmen, the squeaking of ...
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