Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und seiner Genreübergreifenden Virtuosität. Mit zu seinen berühmtesten Publikationen gehören die New Yorker Geschichten, hier Teil 4: Darin werden verschiedene Machthaber von Neu-Amsterdam vorgestellt, welche alle ihre ganz spezifischen Macken aufwiesen und meistens von Politik soviel verstanden wie ein Pferd vom Schl...

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands. Allerdings ummantelt er seine Geschichten ebenso gerne mit einem Grotesk-Phantastischen Gewand, so dass man zum einen nie weiß was als nächstes kommt und zum anderen immer das Gefühl vermittelt bekommt hautnah dabei zu sein, wobei einem die besch...

"The Life Of George Washington" is a monumental work on the life of one of the most famous American presidents. Originally published in five volumes between 1853 and 1859, it is a treasure chest of information on Washington and the Civil War. This work is presumeably the most intimate and fascinating biography of a man who worked his way from an Army commander to the first President of the United States. This is volume four out of five.

Ami de Walter Scott, très apprécié des romantiques anglais Coleridge et Byron, Washington Irving va s’affirmer très vite, au début du XIXe siècle, comme un écrivain américain d’envergure nationale avec pour seul véritable rival, Fenimore Cooper. Bien avant sa mort d’ailleurs, son nom illustre déjà l’enseigne d’un hôtel new-yorkais et d’une compagnie de chemin de fer, et sa maison de style néo-gothique est devenue un lieu de pèlerinage ! Écrivain atypique, il joue un rôle d’avant-garde dans...

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, warm and comfortable becomes cold, painful, even horrific.The talents of their pens now f...

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 4 in the series spans the years 1835 to 1869 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors; English, Irish, Scottish and American. Includes tales by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving. Readers new to this genre will discover ...

CONTENIDO:El Principito (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)Ben-Hur (Lewis Wallace)Amok (Stefan Zweig)Los Buscadores de Tesoros (Washington Irving)Las Razones de Georgina (Henry James)Más Allá del Bien y del Mal (Friedrich Nietzsche)Terror en Fontenay (Alexandre Dumas)Piratas y Mar Azul (Arthur Conan Doyle)¿Pueden Suceder Tales Cosas? (Ambrose Bi...

Bare Bones: This is the main documentation of the work in question, with just advertising and Collected Works formatting. You do not get the extra padding that you would get with my material that I am asking a pittance for.What’s missing?Title PagePrefaceCoffee Breaks with differing subject mattersBreaking BreadWhy do I create these?Personal pet peeve of mine. They are my current preference and I find it easy to imagine someone having th...

Including classic humor from both British and American authors such as Mark Twain, Saki, and O. Henry, this anthology designed for junior high and high school readers also includes new contributions. This anthology is designed to serve as a bridge for readers to gain appreciation skills for humor in their reading, helping them tackle more complex stories as they proceed. Embedded notes are provided to explain more difficult words, as well as concepts and ideas that were common in previous ...

This work collects the first four batches of reflections from the short story (40 some odd pages) of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow with corresponding Scriptures and other oddities of interest to the Christian community. The short story would later inspire Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999)Matthew 6:11-Give us this day our daily bread.John 6:26- Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate o...