The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories / Washington Irving.
Material type: TextPublisher: Thorndike, Me. : G.K. Hall & Co., 2001Description: 267 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0783893736
- 818/.207 21
- PS2066.A2 G3 2001
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | James Prendergast Library Association Large Print | Fiction | LARGE PRINT FICTION IRVING, W. (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 03/27/2024 | 3188004191795 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
When the sixteen stories collected here first were published in 1819, readers in America and abroad greeted them with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author. Some of the pieces are gently ironic, reflecting the author's interest in the traditions of the Old World and his longings for his home in the New. But it is in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow that Irving exhibits his true strength: the ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them.
Selections from: The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent.
Accelerated Reader UG 11.0 3 3 7115
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. vii)
- A Note on the Text (p. xxiii)
- Preface to the Revised Edition (1848) (p. 3)
- The Author's Account of Himself (p. 8)
- The Voyage (p. 11)
- Roscoe (p. 16)
- The Wife (p. 22)
- Rip Van Winkle (p. 28)
- English Writers on America (p. 43)
- Rural Life in England (p. 50)
- The Broken Heart (p. 56)
- The Art of Book Making (p. 61)
- A Royal Poet (p. 67)
- The Country Church (p. 79)
- The Widow and Her Son (p. 83)
- A Sunday in London (p. 89)
- The Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap (p. 91)
- The Mutability of Literature (p. 100)
- Rural Funerals (p. 109)
- The Inn Kitchen (p. 119)
- The Spectre Bridegroom (p. 121)
- Westminster Abbey (p. 134)
- Christmas (p. 147)
- The Stage Coach (p. 153)
- Christmas Eve (p. 159)
- Christmas Day (p. 169)
- The Christmas Dinner (p. 180)
- London Antiques (p. 192)
- Little Britain (p. 197)
- Stratford-on-Avon (p. 209)
- Traits of Indian Character (p. 225)
- Philip of Pokanoket (p. 234)
- John Bull (p. 248)
- The Pride of the Village (p. 257)
- The Angler (p. 264)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (p. 272)
- L'Envoy (p. 298)
- Appendix A "Prospectus" to the First American Edition (p. 301)
- Appendix B "Advertisement" to the First British Edition (p. 303)
- Notes (p. 305)
- Suggestions for Further Reading (p. 337)
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.