Washington Irving

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ID3625682
NOMBREWashington Irving
NOMBRESWashington
APELLIDOIrving
FIRMAIRVING W
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1868
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
ÍNDICE H0

  • Adventures of Captain Bonneville

    Washington IrvingCHAPTERTravels, Explorations and…2021

    In the 1832 Nathaniel J. Wyeth, with a party of inexperienced New Englanders, arrived on the Missouri aiming to profit from the fur and the fishing on the Columbia. That same year, Captain Benjamin Bonneville of the US Army also reached the area with 110 employees; travelling, for the first time in the Rocky Mountains, in the covered wagons. Captain Bonneville was born in France in 1796. Brought up in New York, he became a career soldier on the f…

  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

    Washington Irving, Susan ManningBOOKWashington Irving - The Sketch-Book2009

    The Sketch-Book (1820–1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as 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’. …

  • Washington Irving - The Sketch-Book

    Washington Irving, Susan ManningBOOKWashington Irving - The Sketch-Book2009

  • The Art of Book-Making

    Washington IrvingCHAPTERWashington Irving - The Sketch-Book2009

    If that severe doom of Synesius be true—‘It is a greater offence to steal dead men’s labor, than their clothes,’ what shall become of most writers? Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy * I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and...

  • Cuentos de la Alhambra

    Maria T Redmon, Washington IrvingARTICLEHispania1987

  • Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

    C Brewster Coulter, Washington Irving et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1978

    Journal Article Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Get access Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. By Irving Washington. Edited by Rust Richard Dilworth. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976. 500 p. Notes, textual commentary, index. $25.00.) C. Brewster Coulter C. Brewster Coulter University of Puget Sound Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Hist…

  • The Complete Works of Washington Irving

    Edward Wagenknecht, Henry A Pochmann et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1970

  • The Complete Works of Washington Irving

    James Franklin Beard, Washington Irving et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1970

  • The Complete Works of Washington Irving

    Open AccessJames H Pickering, Washington Irving et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1970

  • Washington Irving's Version of the Seminole Origin of Races

    Alan Dundes, Washington IrvingARTICLEEthnohistory1962

    Washington Irving was very much interested in the American Indian. In a number of his writings he described various aspects of specific Indian cultures.' This interest is apparent in an article of his on the Seminoles which was first published in The Knickerbocker in 1840. In this article, Irving relates a speech which a Seminole chief delivered to a Florida governor, William P. Duval. Included in the text of the speech is a narrative from Semino…

  • Tamerlane and Other Poems

    Charles T Miller, Edgar Allan Poe et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1941

  • Washington Irving and the Storrows

    Nelson F Adkins, Washington Irving et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1934

  • Mahomet and his successors

    Washington IrvingBOOK1868

    This book is from the rare book collection originally held in the George Camp Keiser Library of the Middle East Institute (MEI), Washington DC. This collection, acquired in 2008 by the Gelman Library of The George Washington University, now forms part of the Special Collections Research Center.