Little Masterpieces: Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the Devil and Tom Walker, the Voyage, Westminster Abbey, Stratford-on-Avon, the Stout Gentleman (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Washington Irving

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332741789 ISBN 13: 9781332741786

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Little Masterpieces: Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the Devil and Tom Walker, the Voyage, Westminster Abbey, Stratford-on-Avon, the Stout Gentleman

IN The Author's Account of Himself, which prefaces The sketch-book, Geoffrey Crayon compares himself with the unlucky landscape painter who had sketched in nooks and corners and by-places, but had neglected to paint St. Peter's and the Col iseum, and had not a single glacier or vol cano in his whole collection. This restric tion in theme, which Irving whimsically confesses, was in part, no doubt, as he would have us believe, the result of follow ing the bent of a vagrant inclination, but it was also an evidence of the happiest ar tistic instinct. One of Irving's most inti mate friends has noted his wonderful knack at shutting his eyes to the sinister side of anything. To ignore the sinister side of life is to restrict one's art; but Irving was led by a faultless taste to those subjects that lay well within his powers. Better than most authors of equal rank, he knew what to avoid. In his unfailing sense of proportion, purity of feeling, and fine re.

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Washington Irving Was born in New York City in 1783. He lived in the United States, England, and Spain (where he served as an American diplomatic attache). A prolific author, Irving wrote The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Alhambra, and biographies of George Washington and Christopher Columbus, among other works. He is best remembered, however, for his two most famous stories, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332741789
• ISBN 13: 9781332741786
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213