Washington Irving - Böcker

I popularitet och berömmelse torde få skräckberättelser kunna mäta sig med "Legenden om Sleepy Hollow" av Washington Irving (1783-1859). Novellen har förblivit en av fantastikens verkliga pärlor, och dess tafatte protagonist, Ichabod Cra...

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Tre klassiska noveller. Läs och njut! Franz Kafka: Förvandlingen, Kurt Jr. Vonnegut: 2 B R 0 2 B och Washington Irving: Legenden om Slummerdalen. Olika tider, olika stilar. Novellerna, och författarna, delar däremot ett humoristiskt, och aningen m...

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Presents a collection of the author's travel writings, reflections on nineteenth-century English society, and several short stories.

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In Irving's great work, The Sketch Book, fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolmaster; and th...

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Reproduktion des Originals mit Anpassung an die neue Rechtschreibung

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Washington Irvings klassiska reseskildring från Granada och hans sagor från det moriska Spanien, för första gången på modern svenska i översättning av Ulla Ericson. Berättelser från Alhambra översattes till svenska av Carl Netherwood så tidigt som...

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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.'Featu...

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The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the spectre bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English vil...

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The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the spectre bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English vil...

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With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship...

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Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for ...

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is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes ...

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In The Sketch-Book Washington Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with ta...

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'I'm not myself - I'm somebody else - that's me yonder - no - that's somebody else got into my shoes...I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!'Touching and comic short stories from the 19th century American master of the genre.One of 46 new book...

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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (published in five volumes in 1856-59) was the product of his last years and remains his most personal work. Christened with the name of the great general, Irving was blessed by Washington while s...

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With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not conf...

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Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of th...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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Knickerbocker's History of New York is a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in N...

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Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, ...

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The work focuses on the ups and downs in the life of the protagonist, Wolfert Webber. The hard decisions that he has to take as a father and the care with which he has to proceed as the oldest inhabitant of his area are presented. All the turmoil ...

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Washington Irving's delightful account of a festive Christmas holiday includes five incomparable essays. Written well over a century ago, Irving's sketches "e;celebrate the celebration"e; with heartwarming descriptions of Yuletide events. ...

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The quintessential American writer, Washington Irving emerged as the country's first popular author with such beloved nineteenth-century short stories as "e;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"e; and "e;Rip Van Winkle."e; These highly ente...

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