Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125021766
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125021766
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125021766
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Rip Van Winkle
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowling
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowling
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors
Author: Thomas S. Wermuth
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791450833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791450833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.
Washington Irving
Author: Brian Jay Jones
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611453542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip van Winkle”: quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington Irving rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-six. In 1809 he published A History of New York under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, to great acclaim. The public’s appetite for all things Irving was insatiable; his name alone guaranteed sales. At the time, he was one of the most famous men in the world, a friend of Dickens, Hawthorne, and Longfellow, as well as Astor, van Buren, and Madison. But his sparkling public persona was only one side of this gentleman author. In brilliant, meticulous strokes, Brian Jay Jones renders Washington Irving in all his flawed splendor—someone who fretted about money and employment, suffered from writer’s block, and doggedly cultivated his reputation. Jones offers a very human portrait of the often contrasting public and private lives of this true American original.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611453542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip van Winkle”: quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington Irving rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-six. In 1809 he published A History of New York under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, to great acclaim. The public’s appetite for all things Irving was insatiable; his name alone guaranteed sales. At the time, he was one of the most famous men in the world, a friend of Dickens, Hawthorne, and Longfellow, as well as Astor, van Buren, and Madison. But his sparkling public persona was only one side of this gentleman author. In brilliant, meticulous strokes, Brian Jay Jones renders Washington Irving in all his flawed splendor—someone who fretted about money and employment, suffered from writer’s block, and doggedly cultivated his reputation. Jones offers a very human portrait of the often contrasting public and private lives of this true American original.
Pappyland
Author: Wright Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735221251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time.” —Eric Asimov, The New York Times “Bourbon is for sharing, and so is Pappyland.”—The Wall Street Journal The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. Following his father’s death decades ago, Julian Van Winkle stepped in to try to save the bourbon business his grandfather had founded on the mission statement: “We make fine bourbon—at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon.” With the company in its wilderness years, Julian committed to safeguarding his namesake’s legacy or going down with the ship. Then he discovered that hundreds of barrels from the family distillery had survived their sale to a multinational conglomerate. The whiskey that Julian produced after recovering those barrels would immediately be hailed as the greatest in the world—and soon would be the hardest to find. Once they had been used up, a fresh challenge began: preserving the taste of Pappy in a new age. Wright Thompson was invited to ride along as Julian undertook the task. From the Van Winkle family, Wright learned not only about great bourbon but about complicated legacies and the rewards of honoring your people and your craft—lessons that he couldn’t help but apply to his own work and life. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Pappyland.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735221251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time.” —Eric Asimov, The New York Times “Bourbon is for sharing, and so is Pappyland.”—The Wall Street Journal The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. Following his father’s death decades ago, Julian Van Winkle stepped in to try to save the bourbon business his grandfather had founded on the mission statement: “We make fine bourbon—at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon.” With the company in its wilderness years, Julian committed to safeguarding his namesake’s legacy or going down with the ship. Then he discovered that hundreds of barrels from the family distillery had survived their sale to a multinational conglomerate. The whiskey that Julian produced after recovering those barrels would immediately be hailed as the greatest in the world—and soon would be the hardest to find. Once they had been used up, a fresh challenge began: preserving the taste of Pappy in a new age. Wright Thompson was invited to ride along as Julian undertook the task. From the Van Winkle family, Wright learned not only about great bourbon but about complicated legacies and the rewards of honoring your people and your craft—lessons that he couldn’t help but apply to his own work and life. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Pappyland.
Study Outlines ...
Author: Wisconsin Free Library Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Each number contains "List of Books from which references are made."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Each number contains "List of Books from which references are made."
Study Outlines
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Each number contains "List of Books from which references are made."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Each number contains "List of Books from which references are made."
The Literary World
Author: John Calvin Metcalf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
School Document
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description