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The sketch book. The crayon papers. A history of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
Author: Washington IrvingThe sketch book. The Crayon papers. A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty ... by Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseud.] A tour of the prairies
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Author: Washington IrvingThe Crayon Papers
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732690776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving
Knickerbocker's History of New York ILLUSTRATED
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
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A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker is an 1809 book on the history of New York City by Washington Irving. The book is significant as early media describing what became modern Christmas traditions in the United States.
A Knickerbocker's History of New York
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455615957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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One of the first important works of American comic literature, this satirical history of New York was initially published to popular acclaim in 1809. Spanning the creation of the world to the end of the "Dutch Dynasty," this humorous history examines the discovery of New York, the first settlements of the Dutch, the reign of Peter Stuyvesant, and the gallant achievements of Peter the Headstrong, among many other real and imagined moments in the history of this essential American city. This single-volume reissue marks the 200th anniversary of the original publication of Washington Irving's classic. This book-Irving's first-provides an acute examination of New York's customs, policies, and politics and is every bit as salient, biting, and laughable as it was to its original early-nineteenth-century audience.
A History of New York
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143105619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's point of view, A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch rule in the 1600s that plays fast and loose with the facts, to uproarious effect. The book propelled Irving to the heights of literary stardom. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Knickerbocker's History of New York
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: 谷月社
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK is the book, published in December, 1809, with which Washington Irving, at the age of twenty-six, first won wide credit and influence. Walter Scott wrote to an American friend, who sent him the second edition—— "I beg you to accept my best thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose History of New York. I am sensible that, as a stranger to American parties and politics, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece, but I must own that, looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing. I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." Washington Irving was the son of William Irving, a sturdy native of the Orkneys, allied to the Irvines of Drum, among whose kindred was an old historiographer who said to them, "Some of the foolish write themselves Irving." William Irving of Shapinsha, in the Orkney Islands, was a petty officer on board an armed packet ship in His Majesty's service, when he met with his fate at Falmouth in Sarah Sanders, whom he married at Falmouth in May, 1761. Their first child was buried in England before July, 1763, when peace had been concluded, and William Irving emigrated to New York with his wife, soon to be joined by his wife's parents....
The sketch book. The Crayon papers. A history of New York. A tour of the prairies
Author: Washington IrvingThe sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. A history of New York. The Crayon papers
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Author: Washington Irving