Washington Irving
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Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
[1987]
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English
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales collects the best macabre stories of Washington Irving. Blending sly humor with supernatural thrills, these tales are among the most beloved and re-read of all American fiction. In the thirteen stories gathered for this volume, Irving evokes the colorful landscapes of his Hudson Valley hometown, and conjures characters and creatures from its historical past for a unique kind of weird tale that speaks directly...
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Washington Irving's "Tales of the Alhambra" is really two books in one. The first section chronicles Irving’s 1829 visit to the crumbling Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. Irving was permitted to reside within the palace grounds. His beautifully detailed descriptions of the deteriorating palace and its inhabitants fit well within the romantic vision that was beginning to sweep Europe. One can only imagine Irving's influence in shaping the popularity...
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Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some mysterious mountain men and tastes a strange brew with unexpected effects. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" recounts schoolmaster Ichabod Crane's dream...
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Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the legend of Sleepy Hollow is actually true? Also, Rip Van...
9) The Alhambra
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English
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Compiled during a three-month stay in Granada, Spain, Tales of the Alhambra assembles descriptions, myths, and narratives of historical events. After completing a literary project in Madrid, author Washington Irving traveled to Granada, Spain. Immediately taken by its beauty and extravagance, Irving requested a travel guide and began filling notebooks and journals with his observations and description of the magnificent setting. Beginning with an...
10) The sketch book
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Originally published as The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, this book is considered a landmark in American fiction for introducing the modern short story form in America, The Sketch Book includes Washington Irving's most enduring works, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The collection also includes travel impressions and narratives featuring legends and folklore.
11) Bracebridge Hall
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English
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Bracebridge Hall, written by the esteemed author, Washington Irving, is a collection of location-based character sketches, detailing the lives and personalities of the occupants of a countryside manor in Yorkshire, England, owned by a squire. Narrated by an American man who is an old acquaintance of the squire, Bracebridge Hall follows the events leading up to the wedding of the squire's son, Guy, and his bride-to-be, Julia. Beginning with the arrival...
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When Washington Irving returned to America after seventeen years abroad, he headed west on a surveying mission deep into Native American territory. Irving, as Crayon, is a careful observer of the great range of human life, his skills evident in A Crayon Miscellany, a collection of sketches about his experiences on the frontier.
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Duke Classics
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English
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In this collection of thirty-four essays and short stories, Washington Irving explores the personality of his pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, while providing a study on human behavior. Rip Van Winkle introduces the famed literacy title character, an unmotivated, care-free man who drinks and parties with strangers in the mountains, falls asleep, and wakes up twenty years later in post-revolution America. Also among this collection are tales of sentiment,...
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When Captain James Bonneville left for California in May of 1832 his motives were mixed. Officially, the French-born officer was on a two-year leave of absence from the U. S. Army, but he carried orders to collect information on the geography, geology, and topography "of the Country within the limits of the Territories belonging to the United States, between our frontier, and the Pacific." No one heard from him for five years, and he was assumed he...
17) Sleepy Hollow
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Paramount
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English
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In this version of Washington Irving's classic tale, Ichabod Crane is an eccentric investigator sent to Sleepy Hollow to probe a series of murders allegedly committed by a headless horseman.
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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En alguna batalla durante la guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, fue enterrado en Sleepy Hollow un mercenario alemán al que una bala de cañón le arrancó la cabeza. Desde entonces, se dice que su espectro vaga por los bosques buscando su cabeza perdida...Situada en 1784, este relato narra la historia de Ichabod Crane, un joven supersticioso proveniente de Connecticut, que llega a la comunidad de Tarry Town en Sleepy Hollow, para ser...
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's point of view, A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch rule in the 1600s that...
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"Cuentos de la Alhambra" es una original novela escrita de Washington Irving quien nos conduce a través de un interesante recorrido por toda Andalucía hasta llegar a Granada donde, alojado en la Alhambra, conocerá de primera mano toda una serie de historias y leyendas que narra al lector. De la mano de Irving, tenemos la oportunidad de disfrutar de una serie de cuentos e historias donde se reflejan todo el pasado árabe de la Alhambra y el presente
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