Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306808401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
The Complete Tales Of Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306808401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306808401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
The Complete Tales Of Washington Irving
Author: Charles Neider
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786752017
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786752017
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
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.
Washington Irving's Tales of the Supernatural
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Stemmer House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this book of Irving's choicest stories of the supernatural, there are ghosts in large numbers, as well as goblins, apparitions, spectres, reincarnations, necromancers, and more than a few probable figments of the imagination.
Publisher: Stemmer House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this book of Irving's choicest stories of the supernatural, there are ghosts in large numbers, as well as goblins, apparitions, spectres, reincarnations, necromancers, and more than a few probable figments of the imagination.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Among the first tales by an American writer, the title story and "Rip Van Winkle" marked the entry of Washington Irving into world literature. Also includes "The Devil and Tom Walker," "The Spectre Bridegroom," and more, 15 short stories in all.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Among the first tales by an American writer, the title story and "Rip Van Winkle" marked the entry of Washington Irving into world literature. Also includes "The Devil and Tom Walker," "The Spectre Bridegroom," and more, 15 short stories in all.
Tales of a Traveller
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125021766
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125021766
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Washington Irving
Author: Brian Jay Jones
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611453542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip van Winkle”: quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington Irving rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-six. In 1809 he published A History of New York under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, to great acclaim. The public’s appetite for all things Irving was insatiable; his name alone guaranteed sales. At the time, he was one of the most famous men in the world, a friend of Dickens, Hawthorne, and Longfellow, as well as Astor, van Buren, and Madison. But his sparkling public persona was only one side of this gentleman author. In brilliant, meticulous strokes, Brian Jay Jones renders Washington Irving in all his flawed splendor—someone who fretted about money and employment, suffered from writer’s block, and doggedly cultivated his reputation. Jones offers a very human portrait of the often contrasting public and private lives of this true American original.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611453542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip van Winkle”: quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington Irving rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-six. In 1809 he published A History of New York under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, to great acclaim. The public’s appetite for all things Irving was insatiable; his name alone guaranteed sales. At the time, he was one of the most famous men in the world, a friend of Dickens, Hawthorne, and Longfellow, as well as Astor, van Buren, and Madison. But his sparkling public persona was only one side of this gentleman author. In brilliant, meticulous strokes, Brian Jay Jones renders Washington Irving in all his flawed splendor—someone who fretted about money and employment, suffered from writer’s block, and doggedly cultivated his reputation. Jones offers a very human portrait of the often contrasting public and private lives of this true American original.
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Washington Irving
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Alhambra
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732692620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Alhambra by Washington Irving
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732692620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Alhambra by Washington Irving