Irving Washington: 358 books

WHILE ENGAGED in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United...

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Classic / American English Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: I rose softly, slip ed on my clothes, opened the door sudden y, and beheld one of the most beautiful little fairy groups that a painter could imagine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Contents Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost -- Sleepy Hollow...

I was born among romantic scenery, in one of the wildest parts of the Hudson, which at that time was not so thickly settled as at present. My father was descended from one of the old Huguenot families that came over to this country on the revocation of the edict of Nantz. He lived in a style of easy,...

The “father of the American short story” published this enormously popular book in 1855. Wolfert’s Roost is collection of fables—including whimsical Spanish romances and scenes from around Westchester County—that were originally published in the Knickerbocker Magazine.

El professor Ichabod Crane cavalca pels boscos que voregen Sleepy Hollow amb el cor trencat després que la jove Katrina van Tassel hagi respost negativament a la seva declaració amorosa. Amb el cap encara enterbolit pel desamor i les macabres històries que el pare de la jove havia explicat durant...

La historia toma lugar en 1784, en los alrededores del asentamiento holandés de Tarry Town (Nueva York), en un apartado valle llamado Sleepy Hollow. El lugar es conocido por sus fantasmas y el ambiente embrujado que impregna la imaginación de sus habitantes y visitantes. El espectro...

Washinton lrving murió muy cerca de Sleepy Hollow, en su residencia de Sunny Side, a orillas del Hudson. Era el año de 1859. "Soy un inveterado viajero, he leído algo, visto y oído mucho, y soñado mucho más", afirmó una vez. Podemos preguntarnos cuánto de sueño y cuánto de cierto...

“Hace muchos años, poco antes del estallido de la Revolución Francesa, mi tío pasó varios meses en París. Los ingleses y los franceses mantenían por aquel tiempo muy buenas relaciones, al contrario de lo que acontece ahora, y era habitual verlos juntos en las reuniones de sociedad.”

A story from the 'Old Christmas' collection (Golden Deer Classics)

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Contents Mountjoy -- The great Mississippi bubble --...