Download or read book Tales of a Traveler 1824 by written by Washington Irving and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveler 1824 written by Washington Irving and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon.ContentsAfter the introductory "To the Reader," Tales of a Traveller is composed of four "books."Part I: Strange Stories by a Nervous GentlemanThe Great UnknownThe Hunting DinnerThe Adventure of My UncleThe Adventure of My AuntThe Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My GrandfatherThe Adventure of the German StudentThe Adventure of the Mysterious PictureThe Adventure of the Mysterious StrangerThe Story of the Young ItalianWashington Irving (April 3, 1783
Download or read book Tales of a Traveler 1824 By Washington Irving written by Washington Irving and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., serialized from 1819-20. He continued to publish regularly-and almost always successfully-throughout his life, and just eight months before his death (at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York), completed a five-volume biography of George Washington. Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also admired by some European writers, including Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Francis Jeffrey, and Walter Scott. Also, as the United States' first internationally best-selling author, Irving advocated for writing as a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement. Washington Irving's parents were William Irving, Sr., originally of Quholm, Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland, and Sarah (nee Sanders), both Scottish-English immigrants. They married in 1761 while William was serving as a petty officer in the British Navy. They had eleven children, eight of whom survived to adulthood. Their first two sons, each named William, died in infancy, as did their fourth child, John. Their surviving children were: William, Jr. (1766), Ann (1770), Peter (1771), Catherine (1774), Ebenezer (1776), John Treat (1778), Sarah (1780), and Washington.The Irving family settled in Manhattan, New York and was part of the city's small, vibrant merchant class when Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783, the same week New York City residents learned of the British ceasefire that ended the American Revolution; Irving's mother named him after the hero of the revolution, George Washington.At age 6, with the help of a nanny, Irving met his namesake, who was then living in New York after his inauguration as President of the United States, in 1789. The president blessed young Irving, an encounter Irving later commemorated in a small watercolor painting, which continues to hang in his home.The Irvings lived at 131 William Street at the time of Washington Irving's birth. The family later moved across the street to 128 William St. Several of Washington Irving's older brothers became active New York merchants, and they encouraged their younger brother's literary aspirations....
Download or read book Brooke And Nick written by Deborah Brooks Langford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveller written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveler written by Washington Irving and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving is one of America's most enduring, and beloved authors. For nothing else, people know Washington Irving as the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." "Tales of a Traveler" was written in 1824, under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." One of Irving's better-known pseudonyms was Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name inextricably linked to New York City, and to today's New York Knicks. "Tales of a Traveler" tells a number of humorous stories and anecdotes about exotic dinners and the European travels of Geoffrey Crayon and his colorful relatives. Full of dry wit, "Tales of a Traveler" will please readers today as much as it pleased them in the early 19th century.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveller annotated written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories written by Washington Irving. It was written while Irving was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris, and was published under his Geoffrey Crayon pseudonym.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveller written by Washington Irving and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The book is a collection of small stories with the author serving only as a means to hear these tales from other characters in the book. The locales and stories vary greatly, ranging from good fun, to morals of living, to more serious tones of dangers and trials.
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Download or read book Tales of a Traveller written by Washington Irving and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveller written by Washington Irving and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories written by Washington Irving. It was written while Irving was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris, and was published under his Geoffrey Crayon pseudonym.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveller written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving is one of America's most enduring, and beloved authors. For nothing else, people know Washington Irving as the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." "Tales of a Traveler" was written in 1824, under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." One of Irving's better-known pseudonyms was Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name inextricably linked to New York City, and to today's New York Knicks. "Tales of a Traveler" tells a number of humorous stories and anecdotes about exotic dinners and the European travels of Geoffrey Crayon and his colorful relatives. Full of dry wit, "Tales of a Traveler" will please readers today as much as it pleased them in the early 19th century.
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Download or read book Tales of the Alhambra written by Washington Irving and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough draughts of some of the following tales and essays were actually written during a residence in the Alhambra; others were subsequently added, founded on notes and observations made there. Care was taken to maintain local coloring and verisimilitude; so that the whole might present a faithful and living picture of that microcosm, that singular little world into which I had been fortuitously thrown; and about which the external world had a very imperfect idea. It was my endeavor scrupulously to depict its half Spanish, half Oriental character; its mixture of the heroic, the poetic, and the grotesque; to revive the traces of grace and beauty fast fading from its walls; to record the regal and chivalrous traditions concerning those who once trod its courts; and the whimsical and superstitious legends of the motley race now burrowing among its ruins.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveler written by Washington Irving and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1824 Edition.
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