Washington Irving

An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.' Featuring 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving's reputation as one of America's foremost authors. Irving's...

Told from the perspective of a cantankerous man named Deidrick Knickerbocker, A Knickerbocker's History of New York depicts a satirical history spanning from the world's creation to the end of the Dutch dynasty. Beginning with the start of time itself, Knickerbocker reveals historical anecdotes, both real and imagined featuring social commentary, fresh perspectives on the past, and conversations with powerful historical figures. With humor and intrigue,...

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

When Ichabod Crane becomes the new schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, he quickly and happily adjusts to the local ways. He delights in the bountiful dinners he's served when visiting the prosperous farms of the region; he enjoys the local yarns and scary legends that fill the firelit evenings of autumn; and he comes to love the idea of marrying Katrina Van Tassel and of one day owning her father's wealth and lands. There's one problem with his plans,...

A short memoir of the American author's time in London, where he paints a vivid description of 19th-century British life.

Edwin Paul GROBE (naskiĝis la 19-an de aprilo 1927, mortis la 22-an de januaro 2015) estis usona esperantisto, tradukisto kaj verkisto, kiu loĝis en Tempe, Arizono. Li instruis la francan lingvon kiel profesoro ĉe la Arizona Ŝtata Universitato. Edwin Paul Grobe (born 19 April 1927, died 22 January 2015) was an Esperantist and translator who lived in Tempe, Arizona. He was a professor of French Language and Literature at Arizona State University....

A collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories by American author Washington Irving (1783-1859) inspired by, and partly written during, his 1828 visit to the palace/fortress complex known as the Alhambra in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

Initially published throughout 1819 and 1820, The Sketch-Book is a collection of 34 essays and short stories, collected and ordered according to the Author’s Revised Edition published in 1848. The Sketch-Book is the first publication to use Irving’s pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, which he would carry into later works.

The stories vary in nature, from the comical “The Mutability of Literature” to the eerie and seemingly

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