A Tour on the Prairies

A Tour on the Prairies

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher:

Published: 1835

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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In the Fall of 1832 Washington Irving took part in what he called "a month foray beyond the outposts of human habitation, into the wilderness of the Far West." As was his habit, Irving kept a memorandum book, which he later expanded into A Tour on the Prairies, a real-life Western adventure in the third decade of the nineteenth century. His account is fresh and clear. He saw and makes his readers see the frontiersmen, the trappers, the Indians, and the troopers as they actually were in the 1830s.


Mark Twain's Library of Humor

Mark Twain's Library of Humor

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 1888

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13:

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"Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section." -The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888) Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays and those of other popular contemporary writers, such as Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1888 edition of Mark Twain's Library of Humor, with the authentic illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is an entertaining and humorous book for book lovers and Mark Twain aficionados.


Astoria

Astoria

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher: London : R. Bentley

Published: 1839

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13:

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The Original Knickerbocker

The Original Knickerbocker

Author: Andrew Burstein

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-02-26

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0786722223

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Washington Irving-author, ambassador, Manhattanite, and international celebrity-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are still very well known. With a historian's eye for scope and significance, Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was a major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature. Though he gave his young nation such enduring tales as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” he was far more than one of our nation's most outsized literary talents. Irving was an American original and a citizen of the world.


The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-10-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781539541196

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From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Washington Irving


Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

Author: Ashley Foehner

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555917135

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An illustrated adaptation of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.