Logo

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

Large book cover: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
by

Publisher: G. Munro
ISBN/ASIN: 0199555818
Number of pages: 398

Description:
Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby creating the first classic American short stories, Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Home page url

Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)

Download mirrors:
Mirror 1
Mirror 2
Mirror 3
Mirror 4

Similar books

Book cover: Nowhere Else to TurnNowhere Else to Turn
by - Archive.org
This collection of short stories explores specific instances of involvement with or belief in the supernatural in a North African country. The tales, all claiming to be true, were collected over several years while the author was living in Morocco.
(10305 views)
Book cover: The Entire Original Maupassant Short StoriesThe Entire Original Maupassant Short Stories
by - Project Gutenberg
During his brief ten years career, Maupassant produced poetry, romances and novels, with the fertility of a master hand, to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. This book contains all thirteen volumes of his original short stories.
(14360 views)
Book cover: MicrostoriesMicrostories
by - eBookIt
Microstories is a collection of 44 bite-sized tales, designed to inspire, entertain and inform. Each Microstory is accompanied by a spiritual summary that can be used as a meditative statement. The stories and summaries are all self-contained.
(12798 views)
Book cover: The Paperwork RebuttalThe Paperwork Rebuttal
by - Philistine Press
A collection of narrative and poetry fused onto U.S. federal and state government documents. These documents include the mental breakdown of an accountant on a Form 1040, an unlikely hero found on a jury duty summons, and a victim of sexual abuse.
(7568 views)