Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories from The sketch book

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Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories from The sketch book

Author:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

ISBN:

9780451530127

Publication Information:

New York : Signet Classics, [2006]

Physical Description:

xiv, 381 p. ; 18 cm.

Contents:

Voyage -- Roscoe -- Wife -- Rip Van Winkle -- English writers on America -- Rural life in England -- Broken heart -- Art of book making -- Royal poet -- Country church -- Widow and her son -- Sunday in London -- Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap -- Mutability of literature -- Rural funerals -- Inn Kitchen -- Spectre bridegroom -- Westminster Abbey -- Christmas -- Stage coach -- Christmas Eve -- Christmas Day -- Christmas dinner -- London antiques -- Little Britain -- Stratford-on-Avon -- Traits of Indian character -- Philip of Pokanoket -- John Bull -- Pride of the village -- Angler -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- L'Envoy.

Personal Subject:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859-Travel-England.

Subject Term:

Americans -- England -- History -- 19th century.

Short stories, American -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction.

Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Summary:

The creator of such quintessentially American fiction as "Rip Van Winkle, " Irving earned his preeminence with the masterpieces in miniature collected here: dozens of short stories, travel essays, biographical discourses, and literary musings.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Bayport Public Library	FICTION IRV	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)	FICTION IRV	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)	FICTION IRV	Searching... Unknown
Searching... R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)	FICTION IRV	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Stillwater Public Library	818.207 IRV	Searching... Unknown

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Sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving created such staples of American fiction as the stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." He earned his preeminence in early American literature with the masterpieces in miniature collected here- dozens of stories, travel essays, biographical discourses, and literary musings. "His influence on American writers is unquestioned," wrote Edgar Allan Poe, and his stories have proved as enduring as the Catskill Mountains the author immortalized.

"Exceptional talent....I am one of his most ardent admirers. I admired Mr. Irving's work so much, in fact, that I gave it the ultimate praise; I 'borrowed it.'"-Edgar Allan Poe

With an Introduction by Wayne Franklin

Author Notes

Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Following his return to the U.S. in 1846, he began work on a five-volume biography of Washington that was published from 1855-1859.

Washington Irving died in 1859 in New York.

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