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Mohammed (Wordsworth Classics) by Washington IRVING
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worship false gods instead. As the last and greatest prophet of the one and only God, it was his task to abolish ...Show more
Old Christmas by Washington Irving
Category: Classics
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. So begins Irving's classic recital of Christmas traditions in 19th-century England. Originally part of The Sketch Books of Geoffrey Crayon, G ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving; N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Calla Editions Ser.
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle : Little Black Classic by Washington Irving
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'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. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories (Puffin Classics) by Washington Irving
Category: Children's Classics
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Washington Irving
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange ...Show more
Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of all storie ...Show more
Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Mint Editions Ser.
Separated into four parts, Tales of a Traveller features twenty-seven works of short fiction, all catering to a sense of adventure and interest in the macabre. The first part, titled Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman explores the odd escapades of its protagonists. In The Adventure of a German Stu ...Show more
Tales of the Alhambra by Irving Washington
Category: Non-Fiction
The Alhambra: a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards was published in May 1832, Consisting of a series of essays and short fiction pieces, it was referred to as his "Spanish Sketch Book." In 1851 Irving wrote the "Author's Revised Edition," also titled Tales of the Alhambra. Tales of ...Show more