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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.' Featuring 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving's reputation as one of America's foremost authors. Irving's timeless characters, including Ichabod Crane,...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Washington Irving (1783—1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Tales of a Traveller" is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Irving while he was living in Europe. These stories are a delightful medley of humorous and tragic elements.
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Washington Irving (1783—1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Bracebridge Hall" is a location-based series of character sketches with a number of individual plots. The tales center on an English manor, its inhabitants, and the tales they tell.
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Ирвинг Вашингтон - американский писатель-романтик XIX века, которого часто называют "отцом американской литературы". Многократно экранизированная повесть "Легенда о Сонной Лощине" - это одно из самых узнаваемых и известных произведений в мировой литературе. Действие происходит в 1790 году, в голландском поселении Тарритаун. Молодой Икабод Крейн влюбляется в молодую Катрину, дочь богатого фермера ван Тассела. И вот однажды осенью в Тарритауне появляется призрак Всадника без головы, который...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Washington Irving (1783—1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon" is a collection of essays and short stories. Stories range from the maudlin (such as "The Wife" and "The Widow and Her Son") to the picaresque ("Little Britain") and the comical ("The Mutability of Literature").
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Tales of the Alhambra" is a collection of essays, sketches and stories. The Alhambra is a palace located in Granada, in the south of Spain. The book consists of a collection of enchanting Spanish and Moorish legends, folktales, and myths about the palace and its surroundings, along with some more traditional travel narratives and observational essays about...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Astoria" is a history book which was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810-1812. Although Washington Irving never traveled to Oregon Country, he wrote one of the most widely read and influential narratives of the region. This book introduced more readers to the Pacific Northwest than any...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.’Featuring ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’, this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving’s reputation as one of America’s foremost authors. Irving’s timeless characters, including Ichabod Crane, Rip...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Зарубежная современная проза |
Washington Irving,s classic tale of romantic schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman. Author’s vivid imagery involving the wild supernatural pursuit by the Headless Horseman has sustained interest in this popular folktale through many printed editions, as well as film, stage, and musical adaptations. This book has been specially formatted for devices that support EPUB3. 1.0
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains, meets some strange men and comes home twenty years later. Ichabod Crane sees a man with no head on a horse. Are there ghosts in these stories?
2,133 words.
American English.
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Год | 2008 |
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Their stories are told by some of America's most celebrated writers (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver) and a few,...
| Автор | Джумпа Лахири, Washington Irving, Lydia Davis |
| Год | 2011 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.' Featuring 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving's reputation as one of America's foremost authors. Irving's...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Проза, Классическая проза |
| Год | 2012 |
There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of all stories in this region of shadows relate to one particularly dreadful spectre - the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving's comic horror story is the best known of this collection...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2015 |
One dark night, Ichabod Crane - the village schoolmaster - saw the Headless Horseman. Or did he? Rip Van Winkle did not like working on his farm and his wife was always angry with him. He wante to forget his troubles for a day. So he took his dog and his gun and he walked up into the Catskill Mountains.
| Автор | Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2016 |
Washington Irving (1783—1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Bracebridge Hall" is a location-based series of character sketches with a number of individual plots. The tales center on an English manor, its inhabitants, and the tales they tell.
| Автор | Вашингтон Ирвинг, Washington Irving |
| Год | 2019 |
Washington Irving (1783—1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Bracebridge Hall" is a location-based series of character sketches with a number of individual plots. The tales center on an English manor, its inhabitants, and the tales they tell.
| Автор | Вашингтон Ирвинг, Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Мистика Фантастика Фэнтези |
| Год | 2019 |
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Tales of a Traveller" is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Irving while he was living in Europe. These stories are a delightful medley of humorous and tragic elements.....
| Автор | Вашингтон Ирвинг, Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2019 |
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Astoria" is a history book which was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810-1812. Although Washington Irving never traveled to Oregon Country, he wrote one of the most widely read and influential narratives of the region. This book introduced more readers to the Pacific Northwest than any...
| Автор | Вашингтон Ирвинг, Washington Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2019 |