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Chronicle of The Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving ...

Chronicle of The Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter.
Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies

Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies

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Letter to Ralph M. Aderman. 9 January 1973. The Complete Works of Washington Irving Records. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. POCHMANN, HENRY A., et al. Washington Irving Manual (which went through several stages).
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Washington Irving

... Elizabeth L. Bradley. pages cm.—(Penguin classics) eBook ISBN 9780698181595 1. Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)—Fiction. 2. Catskill Mountains Region(N.Y.)— Fiction. 3. Irving, Washington, 1783–1859—Travel— England—Fiction.
Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict ...

Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict ...

J. Gerald Kennedy

Ed. Ralph M. Aderman, Herbert L. Kleinfield, and Jenifer S. Banks. Vol. 2. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Irving, Washington. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. 1828. Ed. John Harmon McElroy. Boston: Twayne, 1981. Irving, Washington ...
Astoria: or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

Astoria: or, Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving

The first English edition was issued simultaneously with the American. John Jacob Astor persuaded Irving to undertake this story of his ill-fated enterprise at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1834.
The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving

The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving

Andrew Burstein

With a historian’s eye for scope and significance, Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was a major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature.
Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

C. Patell

Qtd. in Elizabeth L. Bradley, Introduction to A History of New York by Washington Irving, ed. Elizabeth L. Bradley (1809; rpt., New York: Penguin, 2008), xi. 18. Washington Irving, A History of New York, ed. Elizabeth L. Bradley (1809; rpt., New ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

WASHINGTON IRVING

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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.
Roster of the Society of the Cincinnati

Roster of the Society of the Cincinnati

Society of the Cincinnati

Chaplain of the Virginia Society 1929 JOHN KIRKMAN BERRY, Jr. "Meadow Land". Greenwich, Conn. 1910 GIST BLAIR 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 1931 MAURICE NEVILLE BLAKEMORE Washington Irving Gardens, ...
Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe

Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe

Irving Howe

Presented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope.
Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

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Irving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920?93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation.
Washington Irving: The Definitive Biography of America's ...

Washington Irving: The Definitive Biography of America's ...

Brian Jay Jones

The Definitive Biography of America's First Bestselling Author Brian Jay Jones. Washington Irving THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S FIRST BESTSELLING AUTHOR BRIAN JAY JONES Copyright © 2008, 2011 by Brian Jay Jones ...
Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s

Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s

Irving Sandler

The critic and curator Irving Sandler was a key figure as a critic and friend to many artists as well as an employee of the influential Tanager gallery. Sandler was also an active presence at the famous Artists Club.
The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge

THE EIGHT JOURNALS PUBLISHED IN THIS VOLUME, with entries dated between September 18, 1878, and December 18, 1880, are Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge's personal record of an eventful period in his career as a United ...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Webster's Chinese Traditional ...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Webster's Chinese Traditional ...

Washington Irving

Webster's edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words.
John Irving

John Irving

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Explores the author's literary works through critical essays that explore Irving's popularity, narrative perspective, and post-modernism from a variety of viewpoints.
A long the riverrun: selected essays

A long the riverrun: selected essays

Richard Ellmann

Presents eighteen biographical and literary essays on Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde and other notable authors
The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge

In summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to the Pacific Northwest, south through ...

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