The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Oxford World’s Classics
In The Sketch-Book Washington Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the first classic American short stories, `Rip Van Winkle’ and `The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow’.
DSBF; FC; FYB
818.208
Washington Irving, Susan Manning – Oxford University Press