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Sleepy Hollow is known for being home to ghosts and spirits, the most famous of which is the terrifying Headless Horseman, a spectre searching for the head he lost to a stray cannonball during the American Revolutionary War. Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster, is more concerned with earning the hand of Katrina Van Tassel than worrying about ghosts, but the night that he expects to earn Katrina's affections holds something quite different...
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El pueblo de Sleepy Hollow estaba bajo un hechizo adormecedor; la gente que vivía ahí caminaba soñolienta y era propensa a tener visiones y sueños extraños. Por todo el pueblo existían lugares encantados y supersticiones. Entre todas estas fantasías, había un espectro que sobresalía de todos los demás. Un soldado que por las noches cabalgaba velozmente, asustando a los lugareños con sólo el galopar de su caballo. Iba de un lugar a otro...
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Horror rides astride a shadowy steed and fantastic beings haunt daylit settings in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Macabre Tales, a collection of the best weird fiction of Washington Irving. Blending sly humor with supernatural thrills, these tales are among the best loved of all American literature. In the thirteen stories gathered for this volume, Irving evokes the colorful landscapes of his Hudson Valley hometown, and conjures characters and...
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"The Christmas Stories by Washington Irving: Illustrated" is a delightful collection that brings together the timeless holiday tales penned by the acclaimed American author, Washington Irving. This anthology includes some of Irving's most cherished stories, including "Christmas Eve," "Christmas Day," "The Christmas Dinner," and more.
Washington Irving, known for his masterful storytelling, invites readers into the heart of Christmas celebrations...
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The celebrated American storyteller visited Granada's medieval Moorish palace, the Alhambra, in 1828. He set up shop to mine the location for material, producing this hybrid of travelogue and legend. In addition to his impressions of Spain, Irving treats the reader to fantastic stories of imprisoned princes, ghosts, genies, and even a headless horse.
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Washington Irving's lifelong interest in Spain-sparked by reading Don Quixote as a child-resulted in traveling and living in the country for a period of time. Irving wrote several books about Spain and the Moors, including this account of Spain's conflict with the Moors, an engaging read for students of European history.
52) Spanish Papers
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Spanish Papers is a number of stories and legends covering the history of the Muslim conquest of Spain and the later recovery by Christian forces. These stories are from unpublished manuscripts left by Washington Irving in his will after his death.(Goodreads)
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La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow y otros relatos es una colección de 34 ensayos y relatos que Irving publicó en 1820 con el título de El libro de apuntes de Geoffrey Crayon, pseudónimo que utilizó por vez primera y bajo el cual verían la luz otras de sus obras literarias. En él el autor recopila muchos de los cuentos populares que escuchó durante sus viajes por Europa, principalmente de Inglaterra, donde entonces residía, y a ellos sumó otros...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE COLLECTED HISTORICAL WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING (Illustrated Edition”.
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INTRODUCTION
SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842 by Charles Dickens
BIOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON IRVING by Charles Dudley Warne
A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE
ASTORIA
CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA
LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH
LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
THE STUDENT'S...
55) Salmagundi
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The Mad magazine of its day, the satirical journal Salmagundi was launched in 1807 by Washington Irving, his brother William, and their friend James Kirke Paulding. Featuring pseudonyms like Will Wizard and Pindar Cockloft, their nonsensical (and occasionally bawdy) comedy is collected in this volume, which popularized New York City's nickname "Gotham."
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George Washington (1732-1799) was the first President of the United States (1789-97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the United States Constitution, which replaced the Articles of Confederation and remains the supreme law of the land. Washington was born into the provincial gentry of Colonial Virginia,...
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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and...