Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Complete Writings of Washington Irving, Including His Life
Author: Washington IrvingThe Complete Tales Of Washington Irving
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306808401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125021766
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart
Author: Vittorio AlfieriGeorge Washington
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306805936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (published in five volumes in 1856-59) was the product of his last years and remains his most personal work. Christened with the name of the great general, Irving was blessed by Washington while still a boy of seven, and later came to know many of the prominent figures of the Revolution. In these pages he describes them using firsthand source material and observation. The result is a book which is fascinating not only for its subject (the American Revolution), but also for how it reveals in illuminating detail the personality and humanity of a now remote, towering icon. Here is an intimate portrait of Washington the man, from Virginia youth to colonial commander to commander-in-chief of the patriot army to first president and great guiding force of the American federation. But one cannot read Irving's Life without marveling at the supreme art behind it, for his biography is foremost a work of literature. Charles Neider's abridgment and editing of Irving's long out-of-print classic has created a literary work comparable in importance and elegance to the original. George Washington, A Biography, Neider's title for his edition of Irving's Life, makes the work accessible to modern audiences. The extensive introduction provides a detailed analysis of Irving's life and times, and the difficulties he faced as he worked against his own failing health to finish what he felt was his masterpiece. This new edition of the superb biography of America's first citizen by America's first literary artist remains as fresh and unique today as when it was penned.
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