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 viii
... present , al- though being exposed to a past that republicanism had in theory discarded may have been disconcerting to some Americans of English descent . Finally to all this oddity we must add the text's publishing history . As Irving ...
... present , al- though being exposed to a past that republicanism had in theory discarded may have been disconcerting to some Americans of English descent . Finally to all this oddity we must add the text's publishing history . As Irving ...
Σελίδα xiv
... present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . Here one touches America's half - secret longing for knowledge of its coun- terself , of exactly what it professes not to be . Crayon will in due course offer much that ...
... present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . Here one touches America's half - secret longing for knowledge of its coun- terself , of exactly what it professes not to be . Crayon will in due course offer much that ...
Σελίδα 3
... not suit me to engage in the publication of your present work , it is only because I do not see that scope in the nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between 8 PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION (1848)
... not suit me to engage in the publication of your present work , it is only because I do not see that scope in the nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between 8 PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION (1848)
Σελίδα 5
... present I am as useless for regular ser- vice as one of my own country Indians , or a Don Cossack . " I must , therefore , keep on pretty much as I have begun ; writing when I can , not when I would . I shall occasionally shift my ...
... present I am as useless for regular ser- vice as one of my own country Indians , or a Don Cossack . " I must , therefore , keep on pretty much as I have begun ; writing when I can , not when I would . I shall occasionally shift my ...
Σελίδα 9
... present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . I had , beside all this , an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America - not a city but has an ample share of ...
... present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . I had , beside all this , an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America - not a city but has an ample share of ...
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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