Presents a collection of the author's travel writings, reflections on nineteenth-century English society, and several short stories.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon includes the international bestselling tale 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' (published under Washington Irving's pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon) and "Rip Van Winkle" - another of the tales that made Irving famous ...
The Baron was a dry branch of the great family of Katzenellenbogen, and inherited the relics of the property, and all the pride of his ancestors. Though the warlike disposition of his predecessors had much impaired the family ...
In The Sketch-Book Washington Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving.
First published in Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., these personal essays offer reflections on the meaning of Christmas and recount the author’s time spending the holiday at the home of an old schoolmate.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving.
Based on Irving's final revision of his most popular work, this new edition includes comprehensive explanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modern reader.
Two more essays, "A Sunday in London" and "London Antiques", were added by Irving in 1848 for inclusion in the Author's Revised Edition of The Sketch Book for publisher George Putnam. At that time, Irving reordered the essays.
D'yeh want—to know de captain ru-uns her? ... Frost after frost had bitten deeply, each depositing its stratum of scab upon the half-healed scar that went ...
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