The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentPenguin, 1999 - 339 Seiten 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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... spirits and 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 ...
... spirits and 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 ...
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... spirit of our people is commercial " ; and , " still connected with [ Britain ] by the ties of language , manners , taste , and commercial intercourse , " Amer- icans were inclined to consider " her literature . . . as ours . " All in ...
... spirit of our people is commercial " ; and , " still connected with [ Britain ] by the ties of language , manners , taste , and commercial intercourse , " Amer- icans were inclined to consider " her literature . . . as ours . " All in ...
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... spirit of her constitution is most analogous to ours . The manners of her people , their intellectual activity - their freedom of opinion- their habits of thinking on those subjects which concern the dearest interests and most sacred ...
... spirit of her constitution is most analogous to ours . The manners of her people , their intellectual activity - their freedom of opinion- their habits of thinking on those subjects which concern the dearest interests and most sacred ...
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... spirit of Dickens's Christmas , and of Thackeray's " and of the Christmas of the Illustrated London News - the emphasis on abundant feasting , quaffing , frolicking , and good cheer - derives from The Sketch Book . Or it may be more ...
... spirit of Dickens's Christmas , and of Thackeray's " and of the Christmas of the Illustrated London News - the emphasis on abundant feasting , quaffing , frolicking , and good cheer - derives from The Sketch Book . Or it may be more ...
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... spirit which had obtained for him the well merited appellation of the Prince of Booksellers . Thus , under the kind and cordial auspices of Sir Walter Scott , I began my literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but discharging ...
... spirit which had obtained for him the well merited appellation of the Prince of Booksellers . Thus , under the kind and cordial auspices of Sir Walter Scott , I began my literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but discharging ...
Inhalt
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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