Washington Irving's Sketch Book
Author: Washington Irving
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 460
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Author: Washington Irving
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 460
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Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9788125021766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author: Washington Irving
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Published: 1822
Total Pages: 402
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 495
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-05-23
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 3732692612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Alhambra by Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2004-01-26
Total Pages: 1036
ISBN-13: 9781931082532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica’s first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving established his fame with tales of the Hudson Valley in the days of Dutch rule, and then spent seventeen years in Europe mining the Old World for stories. When he finally returned to the United States, he embarked on a trilogy of books on the American West that would prove decisive in molding his compatriots’ conception of the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northwest. The Library of America presents this Western trilogy in its third volume of Irving’s work. Irving’s own encounter with the West came in 1832 when he accompanied the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on a month-long journey to what is now eastern Oklahoma. His account of that trip, A Tour on the Prairies (1835), described wild landscape, rugged inhabitants, and dramatic chases and hunts with an eye for romantic sublimity and a keen appreciation of the frontiersman’s “secret of personal freedom.” After the success of his first western book, Irving undertook to write the history of John Jacob Astor’s ultimately failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire in the Northwest. In Astoria (1836), he created a sweeping epic of exploration, commercial enterprise, and “contest for dominion on the shores of the Pacific,” drawing on Astor’s rich archive of materials and enlivening it with his flair for vigorous storytelling. In The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837), Irving focused on a single memorable figure—an army officer and fur trader who may also have been an American spy tracking British ambitions in the far country—to reveal the flavor of frontier life in the Rockies and beyond. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-10-15
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ISBN-13: 9781539541196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Published: 1835
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccount of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1998-03-22
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780306808401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1994-08-22
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780306805936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWashington Irving's Life of George Washington (published in five volumes in 1856-59) was the product of his last years and remains his most personal work. Christened with the name of the great general, Irving was blessed by Washington while still a boy of seven, and later came to know many of the prominent figures of the Revolution. In these pages he describes them using firsthand source material and observation. The result is a book which is fascinating not only for its subject (the American Revolution), but also for how it reveals in illuminating detail the personality and humanity of a now remote, towering icon. Here is an intimate portrait of Washington the man, from Virginia youth to colonial commander to commander-in-chief of the patriot army to first president and great guiding force of the American federation. But one cannot read Irving's Life without marveling at the supreme art behind it, for his biography is foremost a work of literature. Charles Neider's abridgment and editing of Irving's long out-of-print classic has created a literary work comparable in importance and elegance to the original. George Washington, A Biography, Neider's title for his edition of Irving's Life, makes the work accessible to modern audiences. The extensive introduction provides a detailed analysis of Irving's life and times, and the difficulties he faced as he worked against his own failing health to finish what he felt was his masterpiece. This new edition of the superb biography of America's first citizen by America's first literary artist remains as fresh and unique today as when it was penned.