Delphi Classics. 2014. — 4645 p.
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His...
Knickerbocker's History of New York is the book, published in December, 1809, with which Washington living, at the age of twenty-six, first won wide credit and influence. Walter Scott wrote to an American friend, who sent him the second edition- "I beg you to accept my best thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose...
Данное произведение - детальное описание биографии семьи Вашингтонов. The Washington family is of an ancient English stock, the genealogy of which has been traced up to the century immediately succeeding the Conquest. At that time it was in possession of landed estates and manorial privileges in the county of Durham, such as were enjoyed only by those, or their descendants, who...
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over
my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural
games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in
the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through
books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they
bring with them the flavour...
Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving. Illustrated by R. Caldecott. London. Macmillan & Co 1886. На английском языке. Ирвинг рассказывает об английских рождественских обычаях. 124 черно-белые иллюстрации. Художник Рэндольф Калдекотт.
In the course of a revised edition of my works I have come to a
biographical sketch of Goldsmith, published several years since. It was
written hastily, as introductory to a selection from his writings; and,
though the facts contained in it were collected from various sources, I was
chiefly indebted for them to the voluminous work of Mr. James Prior, who
had collected and...
With N.C. Wyeth's illustrations (1921).
A short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
Sketch Book, 1863. — 28 p. A short story by Washington Irving "Rip Van Winkle" belongs to American era of literary Pre-romanticism. Contains fictional elements. The main hero meets strange people-like creatures in the mountains and spends one night in their company; however, on returning home it turns out that he has been absent for 20 years. Note on the text Postscript List of...
[The following adventures were related to me by the same nervous
gentleman who told me the romantic tale of THE STOUT GENTLEMAN,
published in Bracebridge Hall.
It is very singular, that although I expressly stated that story to
have been told to me, and described the very person who told it, still
it has been received as an adventure that happened to myself. Now, I
protest I...
I was born among romantic scenery, in one of the wildest parts of the
Hudson, which at that time was not so thickly settled as at present. My
father was descended from one of the old Huguenot families that came over
to this country on the revocation of the edict of Nantz. He lived in a
style of easy, rural independence, on a patrimonial estate that had been
for two or three...
А восточном берегу Гудзона, в глубине одной из бухт, стоит деревня, невдалеке от нее есть лощина, которую за её тишину и безмятежность, а также за флегматичный нрав её обитателей прозвали Сонной. Вся округа изобилует сказаниями, «нечистыми местами», суевериями. Главный дух, посещающий этот зачарованный уголок, — Всадник без головы. В этих местах жил бедный сельский учитель Икабод...
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