The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentPenguin, 1999 - 339 σελίδες Before the fall premiere of the new television series, read the original legend of Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman, and the singularly spooky town of Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irving's classic book When Washington Irving first published this collection of essays, sketches, and tales?originally entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.?readers greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author. This volume includes "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," two of America's most recognizable and loved works of fiction and displays Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them. And it is on the basis of these two classic tales that Irving is generally credited with inventing the short story as a distinct literary genre. Also included here are gently ironic pieces about life in England that reflect the author's interest in the traditions of the Old World and his longings for his home in the New. |
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Σελίδα ix
... feelings of loneliness to which he was subject . He had never quite recovered from the death of his fiancée , Matilda Hoffman , in 1809 . And in the middle of the bankruptcy he had learned of the death of his mother , to whom he was ...
... feelings of loneliness to which he was subject . He had never quite recovered from the death of his fiancée , Matilda Hoffman , in 1809 . And in the middle of the bankruptcy he had learned of the death of his mother , to whom he was ...
Σελίδα xi
... feelings instead of imitating approved models . Obviously congruent with the democratic ethos , Channing's doctrine of aesthetic free- dom and self - reliance was to begin to exert a strong influence on American literature after 1830 ...
... feelings instead of imitating approved models . Obviously congruent with the democratic ethos , Channing's doctrine of aesthetic free- dom and self - reliance was to begin to exert a strong influence on American literature after 1830 ...
Σελίδα xii
... feelings of reverence . " That public of course is the British au- dience , fear of which , he admits , has heretofore undermined his self- confidence and stifled his creativity . Clearly the doctrine of America's cultural dependency on ...
... feelings of reverence . " That public of course is the British au- dience , fear of which , he admits , has heretofore undermined his self- confidence and stifled his creativity . Clearly the doctrine of America's cultural dependency on ...
Σελίδα xiii
... feelings- it was that " era " -between the two peoples , balancing criticism and praise for both sides . That he was not entirely comfortable doing so is suggested by the fact that at times his prose again rings slightly false ...
... feelings- it was that " era " -between the two peoples , balancing criticism and praise for both sides . That he was not entirely comfortable doing so is suggested by the fact that at times his prose again rings slightly false ...
Σελίδα xvi
... feeling and Irving a literary descendant of Sterne , whose Sentimental Journey casts a shadow over Crayon's tour ... feelings ; sometimes treating of scenes before him ; sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering ...
... feeling and Irving a literary descendant of Sterne , whose Sentimental Journey casts a shadow over Crayon's tour ... feelings ; sometimes treating of scenes before him ; sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering ...
Περιεχόμενα
THE VOYAGE | 11 |
ROSCOE | 16 |
THE WIFE | 22 |
RIP VAN WINKLE | 29 |
ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA | 43 |
RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND | 50 |
THE BROKEN HEART | 56 |
THE ART OF BOOK MAKING | 61 |
THE STAGE COACH | 153 |
CHRISTMAS EVE | 159 |
CHRISTMAS DAY | 169 |
THE CHRISTMAS DINNER | 180 |
LONDON ANTIQUES | 192 |
LITTLE BRITAIN | 197 |
STRATFORDONAVON | 209 |
TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER | 225 |
A ROYAL POET | 67 |
THE COUNTRY CHURCH | 79 |
THE WIDOW AND HER SON | 83 |
A SUNDAY IN LONDON | 89 |
THE BOARS HEAD TAVERN EAST CHEAP | 91 |
THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE | 100 |
RURAL FUNERALS | 109 |
THE INN KITCHEN | 119 |
THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM | 121 |
WESTMINSTER ABBEY | 134 |
Christmas | 147 |
PHILIP OF POKANOKET | 234 |
JOHN BULL | 248 |
THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE | 257 |
THE ANGLER | 264 |
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW | 272 |
LENVOY | 298 |
PROSPECTUS TO THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION | 301 |
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST BRITISH EDITION | 303 |
NOTES | 305 |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey ... Washington Irving,Haskell S. Springer Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1999 |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Washington Irving,S. T. Joshi,Richard Dalby Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2009 |
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