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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... scenes and the European past : Bracebridge Hall , Tales of a Traveller , and The Alhambra In 1828 a biography of Columbus appeared , the first of several historical works by Irving notable for their romantic coloring . After seventeen ...
... scenes and the European past : Bracebridge Hall , Tales of a Traveller , and The Alhambra In 1828 a biography of Columbus appeared , the first of several historical works by Irving notable for their romantic coloring . After seventeen ...
Σελίδα vii
... scenes , characters , and institu- tions , while voicing Crayon's loneliness and homesickness for America . Al- though addressed primarily to an American audience , it has English readers also in mind before it is finished . It was ...
... scenes , characters , and institu- tions , while voicing Crayon's loneliness and homesickness for America . Al- though addressed primarily to an American audience , it has English readers also in mind before it is finished . It was ...
Σελίδα xiv
... scenes of renowned achievement - to tread as it were in the footsteps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to med- itate on the falling tower - to escape in short , from the commonplace realities of the present , and lose ...
... scenes of renowned achievement - to tread as it were in the footsteps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to med- itate on the falling tower - to escape in short , from the commonplace realities of the present , and lose ...
Σελίδα xvi
... scenes before him ; sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering back with his recollections to his native country . " These are Crayon's own words about himself in his " Prospectus " for the original American edition ...
... scenes before him ; sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering back with his recollections to his native country . " These are Crayon's own words about himself in his " Prospectus " for the original American edition ...
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... mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures , and how they play their parts ; which methinks are diversely presented unto me , as from a common theatre or scene . " BURTON PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION The following papers , ...
... mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures , and how they play their parts ; which methinks are diversely presented unto me , as from a common theatre or scene . " BURTON PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION The following papers , ...
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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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
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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