商品簡介
'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and the mysterious adventure of 'Rip Van Winkle' are just two famous tales included in this new collection of Washington Irving's quirky, charming and sometimes unnerving tales.
A new collection of Washington Irving's short stories. The title story isi perfect for Halloween.
作者簡介
WASHINGTON IRVING was born April 3, 1783 in New York. He trained as lawyer before deciding to pursue a literary career and, with his brother, producing a series of satirical essays and poems. Irving wrote under pseudonyms at first: 'Diedrich Knickerbocker' for A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, and 'Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.' forSketch Book. The latter included pieces inspired by his travels to London during his unsuccessful efforts to save the family business from bankruptcy, andRip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, for which he became famous. Irving worked in Spain as a diplomatic attache, where he wroteLegends of the Alhambra in 1832, and London as secretary to the US legation. His final work was a vast biography of George Washington published in 1855. He died on November 28, 1859.
