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.
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."
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
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."
Rip Van Winkle
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448417332
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448417332
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
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
The Man who was Rip Van Winkle
Author: Benjamin McArthur
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300122322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical and cultural history, Benjamin McArthur chronicles Jefferson's remarkable career and offers a lively and original account of the heroic age of the American theatre. Joe Jefferson's entire life was spent on the stage, from the age of Jackson to the dawn of motion pictures. He extensively toured the United States as well as Australia and Great Britain. An ever-successful career (including acclaim as painter and memoirist) put him in the company of the great actors, artists, and writers of the day, including Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, John Singer Sargent, and William Dean Howells. This book rescues a brilliant figure and places him, appropriately enough, on center stage of a pivotal time for American theatre. McArthur explores the personalities of the period, the changing theatrical styles and their audiences, the touring life, and the wide and varied culture of theatre. Through the life of Jefferson, McArthur is able to illuminate an era.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300122322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical and cultural history, Benjamin McArthur chronicles Jefferson's remarkable career and offers a lively and original account of the heroic age of the American theatre. Joe Jefferson's entire life was spent on the stage, from the age of Jackson to the dawn of motion pictures. He extensively toured the United States as well as Australia and Great Britain. An ever-successful career (including acclaim as painter and memoirist) put him in the company of the great actors, artists, and writers of the day, including Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, John Singer Sargent, and William Dean Howells. This book rescues a brilliant figure and places him, appropriately enough, on center stage of a pivotal time for American theatre. McArthur explores the personalities of the period, the changing theatrical styles and their audiences, the touring life, and the wide and varied culture of theatre. Through the life of Jefferson, McArthur is able to illuminate an era.