The Crayon Papers - Irving, Washington
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Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American author known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Irving was also an essayist, historian and biographer. Irving was the first American writer to gain fame in Europe. Irving achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gen in 1819. Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon on several occasions. This collection includes MOUNTJOY: or Some Passages out of the Life of a Castle-Builder, THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE--"A Time of Unexampled Prosperity", DON JUAN: A Spectral Research, BROEK: or the…mehr

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Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American author known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Irving was also an essayist, historian and biographer. Irving was the first American writer to gain fame in Europe. Irving achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gen in 1819. Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon on several occasions. This collection includes MOUNTJOY: or Some Passages out of the Life of a Castle-Builder, THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE--"A Time of Unexampled Prosperity", DON JUAN: A Spectral Research, BROEK: or the Dutch Paradise, SKETCHES IN PARIS IN 1825--From the Traveling Note-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, My French Neighbor The Englishman at Paris English and French Character The Tuileries and Windsor Castle The Field of Waterloo Paris at the Restoration, AMERICAN RESEARCHES IN ITALY--Life of Tasso: Recovery of a Lost Portrait of Dante, THE TAKING OF THE VEIL The Charming Letorieres, THE EARLY EXPERIENCES OF RALPH RINGWOOD--Noted Down from his Conversations, THE SEMINOLES, ORIGIN OF THE WHITE, THE RED, AND THE BLACK MEN--A Seminole Tradition, THE CONSPIRACY OF NEAMATHLA--An Authentic Sketch, LETTER FROM GRANADA, ABDERAHMAN: Founder of the Dynasty of the Ommiades in Spain, THE WIDOW'S ORDEAL: or a Judicial Trial by Combat, THE CREOLE VILLAGE: A Sketch from a Steamboat, and A CONTENTED MAN.
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Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819-20. He continued to publish regularly - and almost always successfully - throughout his life, and just eight months before his death (at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York), completed a five-volume biography of George Washington. Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also admired by some European writers, including Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Francis Jeffrey, and Charles Dickens. As America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, Irving advocated for writing as a legitimate profession, and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.