Washington Irving, página 3 de 24

Юбилейное издание, посвященное 175-летию первого выхода в свет «Сказок Аламбры».

En su país, Washington Irving tiene una gran importancia literaria como uno de los primeros escritores profesionales, cuya obra influyó en destacadas figuras como Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain y Edgar Allan Poe. Tanto Rip Van Winkle, como Sleepy Hollow (la leyenda del jinete sin cabeza), la ultima llevada al cine por Tim Burton, se basan en sendas leyendas que circulaban entre los colonos holandeses. La rica vena narrativa de las leyendas medievales del Rhin es el sustrato en el que se basa el cuento gotico El novio de Ultratumba.

"The Alhambra" is one of the most famous collections of essays, stories and small sketches by Washington Irving. The book and most of the stories were written during his stay in Granada, Spain.

Irvings most famous work is - without doubt - this book. The Sketch Book appeared in 1819 and 1820 and contained 34 short stories and essays of English manners, written in a half-sentimental style, with a good deal of liveliness and consierable talent. Among the most prominent stories are "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow."

The poverty of our literature in reference to Mahomet and Mahometanism is so conspicuous and so inconvenient that we may well receive with gratitude the authors very able endeavour to relieve it. With freedom from prejudice and independence of judgment, he combines an extensive and intimate knowledge of the most authentic sources of information, and, after several years of labour, has produced this volume in the hope of contributing to the complete elucidation and final settlement of Mahomets real character and claims. After a careful examination of them, and after comparing them with those of sundry of his predecessors and contemporaries, it appears to us that the author has abundant reason to be gratified with the success he has achieved. Most conscientiously prepared, and based on authorities whom the Moslems themselves appeal to as decisive, his work may be used with equal confidence both by the historian and the controversialist. We heartily commend it to every one who, on so important a subject, desires to have what, on the whole, is probably the best and most complete book in any language, and shall avail. ourselves of it and of other sources of information, in this paper, to present a few of the leading events of the Prophets life, with a view to a brief illustration of his character and of the means and meaning of his success.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville is a rambler through the Back Country, on a trapping scheme. The gallant Captains employment, however, not being, as in the southern parts of the land of liberty, to trap men, but wolves, foxes, beavers, rats, and, we presume, every thing that wears a skin. The Captains adventures lead him into the heart of the mountain chain which divides the waters of the west from those of the United States. He hunts, shoots, and roves at will through this vast region of rock, precipice, and forest. But this work talks of more than mountains. It gives us some insight into the native race which ranged those mountains, and whom the march of mind, in the shape of American squatters, was hourly driving from their lands; and the march of freedom, in the shape of peach brandy, was as rapidly driving out of existence.

These are the notebooks of Washington Irving, containing the jottings made by Irving during his travels in Europe between 1815 and 1830. These journals have been kept in the Irving family until within the last few years of the 19th century. The number of people who think they could write is larger than most of us suspect; it is pleasantly larger than the number who think they can write. There is not one of the former but will be eager to read Irvings notebooks. For they are the genuine backstage of literature. They are real notebooks: they are not journals, written with an eye on the public, as are most of the notebooks that push into print. They are not a collection of Irvings profound thoughts. Neither are they commentaries; Waterloo was but just over, but you will find in these pages few choice bits of gossip concerning the men and affairs of that momentous period. Obeying the strange impulse which seems to be common to all of us, big and little, Irving did set down each day the state of the weather and if he slept well. But this is about as far as the journalizing goes: the rest is observations, character sketches, scraps of sentences, skeleton plotsthese three volumes should help to dispel the notion that writers "make up" their books; only the poor writers invent anything, for they write for the sake of writing; fellows like Irving write for the sake of life, straining to catch and fix some of its overwhelming stream of pictures and passions.

Los Cuentos de la Alhambra son una serie de relatos ocurridos o relacionados con este bello edificio, gracias a ello el lector pasará un rato entretenido y además conocerá muchas curiosidades sobre

Selección de las leyendas más representativas. En el CD, el texto inglés es interpretado y convertido en un talking book en el que actores reales y abundantes efectos de ambientación dan vida a la ob

Astoria by Washington Irving examines the history of the Rocky Mountain Fur trade with a look at John Jacob Astors American Fur Trade company.

A story from the Old Christmas collection (Golden Deer Classics)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow representa uno de los mejores relatos de terror de la literatura anglo-americana. Narra las peripecias de un joven policía que aplica nuevas técnicas deductivas para resolver unos extraños y horripilantes crimenes perpetrados por un jinete sin cabeza que amenaza la tranquila y pacifica convivencia en un pequeño pueblo norteamericano.

In una piccola valle sonnolenta, un cavaliere senza testa semina il terrore con le sue scorribande notturne Ma chi e questo essere misterioso e inafferrabile? La leggenda di Sleepy Hollow come non la avete mai letta! si potrebbe dire ai tanti che la conoscono solo attraverso il cinema e la televisione. Ma come mai un racconto del 1820 continua ancora oggi a stimolare la fantasia (e le paure) di registi e sceneggiatori? E il racconto di Washington Irving e davvero come ce lo hanno presentato loro? Una lettura curiosa e arguta che svela un mondo ormai scomparso dove il confine tra realta e immaginazione, verita e apparenza non e mai certo. Un piccolo classico travestito da racconto da paura. Il racconto e accompagnato dalle illustrazioni di Giulia Caruso. Un ebook dei Dragomanni (www.idragomanni.it).