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       Washington Irving

      The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664169143

       THE SKETCH-BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.

       PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.

       THE SKETCH BOOK.

       THE AUTHOR’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF

       THE VOYAGE.

       ROSCOE.

       THE WIFE.

       RIP VAN WINKLE.

       A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

       ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA.

       RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND.

       THE BROKEN HEART.

       THE ART OF BOOK-MAKING.

       A ROYAL POET.

       THE COUNTRY CHURCH.

       THE WIDOW AND HER SON.

       A SUNDAY IN LONDON.*

       THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.

       A SHAKESPEARIAN RESEARCH.

       THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE.

       A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

       RURAL FUNERALS.

       THE INN KITCHEN.

       THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM.

       A TRAVELLER’S TALE.*

       WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

       CHRISTMAS.

       THE STAGE-COACH.

       CHRISTMAS EVE.

       CHRISTMAS DAY.

       THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.

       LONDON ANTIQUES.

       LITTLE BRITAIN.

       STRATFORD-ON-AVON.

       TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER.

       PHILIP OF POKANOKET.

       AN INDIAN MEMOIR.

       JOHN BULL.

       THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE.

       THE ANGLER.

       THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.

       (FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.)

       L’ENVOY.*

       Table of Contents

      “I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men’s fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.”—BURTON.

      Original

      PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.

       Table of Contents

      T HE following papers, with two exceptions, were written in England, and formed but part of an intended series for which I had made notes and memorandums. Before I could mature a plan, however, circumstances compelled me to send them piecemeal to the United States, where they were published from time to time in portions or numbers. It was not my intention to publish them in England, being conscious that much of their contents could be interesting only to American readers, and, in truth, being deterred by the severity with which American productions had been treated by the British press.

      By the time the contents of the first volume had appeared in this occasional manner, they began to find their way across the Atlantic, and to be inserted, with many kind encomiums, in the London Literary Gazette. It was said, also, that a London bookseller intended to publish them in a collective form. I determined, therefore, to bring them forward myself, that they might at least have the benefit of my superintendence and revision. I accordingly took the printed numbers which I had received from the United States, to Mr. John Murray, the eminent publisher, from whom I had already received friendly attentions, and left them with him for examination, informing him that should he be inclined to bring them before the public, I had materials enough on hand for a second volume. Several days having elapsed without any communication from Mr. Murray, I addressed a note to him, in which I construed his silence into a tacit rejection of my work, and begged that the numbers I had left with him might be returned to me. The following was his reply:

      MY DEAR SIR: I entreat you to believe that I feel truly obliged by your kind intentions towards me, and that I entertain the most unfeigned respect for your most tasteful talents. My house is completely filled with workpeople at this time, and I have only an office to transact business in; and yesterday I was wholly occupied, or I should have done myself the pleasure

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