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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... taken from Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy . It encourages us to view him as solitary , a " mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures . " And there is self - mockery in his next epigraph , a few half - comic , half ...
... taken from Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy . It encourages us to view him as solitary , a " mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures . " And there is self - mockery in his next epigraph , a few half - comic , half ...
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... taken place in my affairs which made the successful exercise of my pen all important to me ; I begged him , therefore , to look over the literary articles I had forwarded to him , and , if he thought they would bear European ...
... taken place in my affairs which made the successful exercise of my pen all important to me ; I begged him , therefore , to look over the literary articles I had forwarded to him , and , if he thought they would bear European ...
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... taken an unwarrantable liberty ; but , somehow or other , there is a genial sunshine about you that warms every creeping thing into heart and confidence . Your literary proposal both surprises and flatters me , as it evinces a much ...
... taken an unwarrantable liberty ; but , somehow or other , there is a genial sunshine about you that warms every creeping thing into heart and confidence . Your literary proposal both surprises and flatters me , as it evinces a much ...
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... taken special care they should never see any of those things during their earlier years . I think I told you that Walter is sweeping the firmament with a feather like a maypole and indenting the pavement with a sword like a scythe- in ...
... taken special care they should never see any of those things during their earlier years . I think I told you that Walter is sweeping the firmament with a feather like a maypole and indenting the pavement with a sword like a scythe- in ...
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... taken down for the purpose , my heart almost fails me at finding how my idle humour has led me aside from the great objects studied by every regular traveller who would make a book . I fear I shall give equal dis- appointment with an ...
... taken down for the purpose , my heart almost fails me at finding how my idle humour has led me aside from the great objects studied by every regular traveller who would make a book . I fear I shall give equal dis- appointment with an ...
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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