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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

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00 - Preface
17:53
01 - The Author's Account of Himself
7:19
02 - The Voyage
16:08
03 - Roscoe
16:43
04 - The Wife
18:25
05 - Rip Van Winkle
55:17
06 - English Writers on America
21:35
07 - Rural Life in England
15:58
08 - The Broken Heart
14:08
09 - The Art of Book-making
15:27
10 - A Royal Poet
37:19
11 - The Country Church
15:01
12 - The Widow and her Son
18:37
13 - A Sunday in London
5:07
14 - The Boar's Head Tavern
22:58
15 - The Mutability of Literature
29:06
16 - Rural Funerals
31:18
17 - The Inn Kitchen
5:17
18 - The Spectre Bridegroom
40:12
19 - Westminster Abbey
31:51
20 - Christmas
15:42
21 - The Stage-Coach
13:41
22 - Christmas Eve
32:28
23 - Christmas Day
37:18
24 - The Christmas Dinner
39:42
25 - London Antiques
13:58
26 - Little Britain
42:20
27 - Stratford-on-Avon
47:47
28 - Traits of Indian Character
25:26
29 - Philip of Pokanoket
48:34
30 - John Bull
25:51
31 - The Pride of the Village
28:41
32 - The Angler
20:21
33 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, part 1
47:13
34 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, part 2
39:58
35 - L'Envoy
6:11

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Best known for two American tales, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' this collection gathers thirty-four sketches and stories that Washington Irving published in installments between 1819 and 1820. Writing under the genial persona of Geoffrey Crayon, Irving moves between English country customs, quiet meditations on ruins and old churches, and the two Hudson Valley legends that made him famous. The prose is warm, observant, and touched with gentle humor and nostalgia. The book was a landmark event: it won Irving an international readership and helped prove that an American writer could stand beside the best of English letters. It remains a founding text of the American short story. Available free as a PDF and EPUB download.

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving was an American essayist, biographer, historian, and short-story writer whose polished prose helped establish an international audience for literature from the young United States.