The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Modern Library Classics) [Washington Irving, Alice Hoffman] on. Editorial Reviews. Review. "Washington Irving makes Nathaniel Hawthorne read like Dr. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Modern Library Classics) - Kindle edition by.

    The first American author to gain international fame, Irving is famous as the writer of classic short stories and essays. His travel experiences are reflected in most of his works. In addition his historical works are also very famous. If you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you! Washington Irving. Publisher: Demco Media , This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.

    Even Irving admitted that he was pleased to have stunned the skeptical English critics.

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    When one English admirer asked Irving to confirm that he was really an American, Irving responded enthusiastically: "The doubts which her ladyship has heard on the subject seem to have arisen from the old notion that it is impossible for an American to write decent English. The book is compared favourably with William Pinnock 's English educational texts in George Eliot 's novel The Mill on the Floss : Maggie, talking about her 'gloomy fancy' to her cousin Lucy says:.

    Let us hope it will give way before my mother's custards and this charming Geoffrey Crayon. Book 6, Chapter 2.

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow And Other Stories: [the Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]

    Had any one told me a few years since in America, that any thing I could write would interest such men as. Byron, I should have as readily believed a fairy tale.

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    One of the most significant influences of The Sketch Book came from its cycle of five Christmas stories, portraying an idealized and old-fashioned Yule celebration at an English country manor. Irving's stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas customs he observed while staying in Aston Hall , Birmingham, England, that had largely been abandoned, [25] and he used the tract Vindication of Christmas London of Old English Christmas traditions, that he had transcribed into his journal as a format for his stories.

    Charles Dickens later credited Irving as an influence on his own Christmas writings, including the classic A Christmas Carol. The U. Legend of Sleepy Hollow U.

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    Dewey Decimal. The Sketch Book Revised ed. Washington Irving. Kessinger Publishing. Young Longfellow — New York: The Macmillan Company, Emphasis in original.

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    But it was the only Washington Irving story I'd ever read until now. School master. Title page of the first edition. A picku Prose writers are voluminous and unwieldy; their pages crowded with commonplaces, and their thoughts expanded into tediousness. Not as scary as I remember, but still a classic October read.

    Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Van Winkle USA. Hardback , 2 vols. A History of New York. Crayon details his ocean voyage from the United States to England. He details the dangers of traveling across the Atlantic to Europe, telling tales of ships lost at sea. Irving's tribute to the English writer and historian William Roscoe , whom Irving had met in Liverpool.

    A sentimental piece in which the new wife of an impoverished gentleman teaches her husband that money can't buy happiness. It is explained that Rip Van Winkle had been put under a spell after helping the spectre of Hendrick Hudson and his crew. Crayon calls for a ceasefire of "the literary animosity daily growing between England and America". Crayon relates the story of a young Irish woman Sarah Curran who wasted away "in a slow but hopeless decline" following the death of her true love Robert Emmet. A humorous piece in which literature is created as easily as a cook might make a stew.

    He specifically discusses how authors go to libraries to research previously written works--sometimes centuries old-- and, partially or completely re-use the concepts discussed in these older works.

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    Crayon contrasts the quiet integrity of the nobleman with the offensive flashiness of the nouveau riche. An old Englishwoman tends to her dying son after he returns from his military conscription at sea. Crayon discusses evolving literary tastes with a talking book he finds in the library of Westminster Abbey.