The Complete Tales Of Washington Irving

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Hachette Books, 2009 M09 9 - 840 pages
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo, and irony that transforms his fiction into virtuoso performances, earning him his reputation as the father of the American short story. Charles Neider has gathered all sixty-one of Irving's tales, originally scattered throughout his many collections of nonfiction essays and sketches, into one magnificent volume. Together, they reveal his wide range: besides the expected classics like "Rip Van Winkle," "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and "The Devil and Tom Walker," his fiction embraces realistic tales, ghost stories, parodies, legends, fables, and satires. For those familiar only with secondhand retellings of Irving's most famous tales, this collection offers the opportunity to step inside Washington Irving's imagination and partake of its innumerable and timeless pleasures.
 

Contents

RIP VAN WINKLE
1
THE SPEGTRE BRIDEGROOM
31
THE STOUT GENTLEMAN
57
THE STUDENT OF SALAMANGA
66
ANNETTE DELARBRE
122
DOLPH HEYLIGER
139
Strange Stories lay a N ervons Gentleman
195
THE ADVENTURE OF MY UNCLE
201
LEGEND OF PRINCE AHMED AL KAMEL
512
LEGEND OF THE MOORS LEGACY
536
LEGEND OF THE THREE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESSES
557
LEGEND OF THE ROSE OF THE ALHAMBRA
574
THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY
586
GOVERNOR MANCO AND THE SOLDIER
593
LEGEND OP THE TWO DISCREET STATUES
606
SPANISH ROMANCE
620

Grandfather
215
ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT
223
Buckthorne and H is Friends
267
GRAVE REFLECTIONS OF A DISAPPOINTED
337
The Italian Banditti
359
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGLISHMAN
421
oneyDiggers
429
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MASON
491
WOLFERTS ROOST
640
THE CREOLE VILLAGE
654
THE WIDOWS ORDEAL
693
A CONTENTED MAN
717
THE EARLY EXPERIENCES OP RALPH RINGWOOD
732
THE COUNT VAN HORN
758
LEGEND OP THE ENGULPHED CONVENT
777
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Charles Neider is a noted literary critic, editor, and novelist. His many books as editor include Washington Irving's George Washington: A Biography, The Complete Humorous Sketches, Tales of Mark Twain, The Great West: A Treasury of Firsthand Accounts, The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, The Complete Essays of Mark Twain, and The Autobiography of Mark Twain. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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