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Tales of a Traveller

Washington Irving

Book Overview: 

Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of people he met, places he saw and stories he was told. In fact, much of the work is recounting tales told to him by those with exotic adventures that were waiting to be shared. “Tales of a Traveler” is broken up into four separate parts or “Books,” as Irving called them. The final book is almost a post-script to “Knickerbocker’s History of New York” as he tells stories and describes Manhattan Island and nearby lands as they were almost two hundred years ago. This rough land, still mostly wilderness, had the fingerprints of the early Dutch colonists evident throughout.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .s to the world, her delightful susceptibility to every thing beautiful and agreeable in nature, reminded me of my own emotions when first I escaped from the convent. Her rectitude of thinking delighted my judgment; the sweetness of her nature wrapped itself around my heart; and then her young and tender and budding loveliness, sent a delicious madness to my brain.

I gazed upon her with a kind of idolatry, as something more than mortal; and I felt humiliated at the idea of my comparative unworthiness. Yet she was mortal; and one of mortality's most susceptible and loving compounds; for she loved me!

How first I discovered the transporting truth I cannot recollect; I believe it stole upon me by degrees, as a wonder past hope or belief. We were both at such a tender and loving age; in constant intercourse with each other; mingling in the same elegant pursuits; for music, poetry, and painting were our mutual delights, and we were a. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Short stories and tales by Washington Irving; great stories all linked by the author through his time spent in the locals. Bracebridge Hall are set in England from Norman times through the present, at least the present for Irving. Tales of the Traveller; Manhattan island and the Hudson Valley from t

This fine book (Bracebridge Hall) by America's first successful literary man of letters is an account of people and events he encountered on a visit to England. It is rife with tales and myths to delight readers throughout the ages. Irving is well-known for such tales as The Legend Of Rip Van Winkle

BRACEBRIDGE HALL:
The Author - 3.5 Stars
The Hall - 3.5 Stars
The Busy Man - 3.5 Stars
Family Servants - 4 Stars
The Widow - 3.5 Stars
The Lovers - 3.5 Stars
Family Reliques - 4 Stars
An Old Soldier - 3.5 Stars
The Widow’s Retinue - 3 Stars
Ready-Money Jack - 3.5 Stars
Bachelors - 3.5 Stars
Wives 3 S

I read The Alhambra because it was a very influential book for Americans who travelled to Spain in the 19th century and this is the focus of a current exhibition at the Chrysler Museum. The work played an important role in establishing or maybe perpetuating a Romantic image of chivalric Moorish Spai

Washington Irving pulled off quite a feat, living inside the Alhambra for several months back in the 19th century, and his memorable book is a tribute to that deed.

He explores the turf very well, which should be read by anyone who ever appreciated his writing beforehand, anyway, or has visited, or

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