Washington Irving: The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs Collection

Washington Irving: The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs Collection
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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842 by Charles Dickens BIOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON IRVING TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBY Abbotsford Newstead Abbey Arrival at the Abbey Abbey Garden Plough Monday Old Servants Superstitions of the Abbey Annesley Hall The Lake Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest Rook Cell Little White Lady A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES TALES OF A TRAVELLER Part I: Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman The Great Unknown The Hunting Dinner The Adventure of My Uncle The Adventure of My Aunt The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather The Adventure of the German Student The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture The Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger The Story of the Young Italian Part II: Buckthorne and His Friends Literary Life A Literary Dinner The Club of Queer Fellows The Poor Devil Author Notoriety A Practical Philosopher Buckthorne, or the Young Man of Great Expectations Grave Reflections of a Disappointed Man The Booby Squire The Strolling Manager Part III: The Italian Banditti The Inn at Terracina The Adventure of the Little Antiquary The Belated Travellers The Adventure of the Popkins Family The Painter's Adventure The Story of the Bandit Chieftain The Story of the Young Robber The Adventure of the Englishman Part IV: The Money Diggers Hell Gate Kidd the PirateThe Devil and Tom Walker Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams The Adventure of the Black Fisherman… Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat.

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INTRODUCTION

SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842 by Charles Dickens

TRAVEL SKETCHES AND MEMOIRS

TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA

A SERIES OF TALES AND SKETCHES OF THE MOORS AND SPANIARDS

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION

THE JOURNEY

PALACE OF THE ALHAMBRA

NOTE ON MORISCO ARCHITECTURE

IMPORTANT NEGOTIATIONS. THE AUTHOR SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE OF BOABDIL

INHABITANTS OF THE ALHAMBRA

THE HALL OF AMBASSADORS

THE JESUITS’ LIBRARY

ALHAMAR. THE FOUNDER OF THE ALHAMBRA

YUSEF ABUL HAGIG. THE FINISHER OF THE ALHAMBRA

THE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBERS

PANORAMA FROM THE TOWER OF COMARES

THE TRUANT

THE BALCONY

LEGEND OF THE ARABIAN ASTROLOGER

NOTE TO “THE ARABIAN ASTROLOGER”

THE COURT OF LIONS

THE ABENCERRAGES

MEMENTOS OF BOABDIL

PUBLIC FETES OF GRANADA

LOCAL TRADITIONS

THE HOUSE OF THE WEATHERCOCK

VISITORS TO THE ALHAMBRA

RELICS AND GENEALOGIES

THE GENERALIFE

LEGEND OF PRINCE AHMED AL KAMEL, OR, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE

A RAMBLE AMONG THE HILLS

LEGEND OF THE MOOR’S LEGACY

THE TOWER OF LAS INFANTAS

LEGEND OF THE THREE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESSES

LEGEND OF THE ROSE OF THE ALHAMBRA

THE VETERAN

THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY

GOVERNOR MANCO AND THE SOLDIER

A FETE IN THE ALHAMBRA

LEGEND OF THE TWO DISCREET STATUES

THE CRUSADE OF THE GRAND MASTER OF ALCANTARA

SPANISH ROMANCE

LEGEND OF DON MUNIO SANCHO DE HINOJOSA

POETS AND POETRY OF MOSLEM ANDALUS

AN EXPEDITION IN QUEST OF A DIPLOMA

THE LEGEND OF THE ENCHANTED SOLDIER

NOTES TO “THE ENCHANTED SOLDIER”

THE AUTHOR’S FAREWELL TO GRANADA

ABBOTSFORD AND NEWSTEAD ABBY

ABBOTSFORD

NEWSTEAD ABBEY

HISTORICAL NOTICE

ARRIVAL AT THE ABBEY

ABBEY GARDEN

PLOUGH MONDAY

OLD SERVANTS

SUPERSTITIONS OF THE ABBEY

ANNESLEY HALL

THE LAKE

ROBIN HOOD AND SHERWOOD FOREST

ROOK CELL

LITTLE WHITE LADY

FOOTNOTES

A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTER XXXIII

CHAPTER XXXIV

CHAPTER XXXV

TALES OF A TRAVELLER

PART FIRST. STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN

FLETCHER’S WIFE FOR A MONTH

A HUNTING DINNER

THE ADVENTURE OF MY UNCLE

THE ADVENTURE OF MY AUNT

THE BOLD DRAGOON

OR THE ADVENTURE OF MY GRANDFATHER

THE ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT

THE ADVENTURE OF THE MYSTERIOUS PICTURE

THE ADVENTURE OF THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

THE STORY OF THE YOUNG ITALIAN

PART SECOND. BUCKTHORNE AND HIS FRIENDS

LINES FROM AN INN WINDOW. LITERARY LIFE

A LITERARY DINNER

THE CLUB OF QUEER FELLOWS

THE POOR DEVIL AUTHOR

BUCKTHORNE, OR THE YOUNG MAN OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS

THE BOOBY SQUIRE

THE STROLLING MANAGER

PART THIRD. THE ITALIAN BANDITTI

THE INN AT TERRACINA

THE ADVENTURE OF THE LITTLE ANTIQUARY

THE ADVENTURE OF THE POPKINS FAMILY

THE PAINTER’S ADVENTURE

THE STORY OF THE BANDIT CHIEFTAIN

THE STORY OF THE YOUNG ROBBER

PART FOURTH. THE MONEY DIGGERS

FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER

HELL GATE

KIDD THE PIRATE

THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER

WOLFERT WEBBER; OR, GOLDEN DREAMS

THE ADVENTURE OF SAM, THE BLACK FISHERMAN

COMMONLY DENOMINATED MUD SAM

LETTERS

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WASHINGTON IRVING AND EDGAR ALLAN POE

Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving — June 7, 1836

Washington Irving to Edgar Allan Poe — before September 21, 1839

Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving — October 12, 1839

Washington Irving to Edgar Allan Poe — November 6, 1839

Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving — June 21, 1841

Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving — July 18, 1842

BIOGRAPHY

WASHINGTON IRVING by Charles Dudley Warner

EDITOR’S NOTE

I. PRELIMINARY

II. BOYHOOD

III. MANHOOD — FIRST VISIT TO EUROPE

IV. SOCIETY AND “SALMAGUNDI”

V. THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD

VI. LIFE IN EUROPE — LITERARY ACTIVITY

VII. IN SPAIN

VIII. RETURN TO AMERICA — SUNNYSIDE — THE MISSION TO MADRID

IX. THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS

X. LAST YEARS — THE CHARACTER OF HIS LITERATURE

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Washington Irving

SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842 by Charles Dickens

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I sat until a late hour listening to the varied themes of this motley group, who mingled together with the unreserve of a Spanish posada. We had contrabandista songs, stories of robbers, guerilla exploits, and Moorish legends. The last were from our handsome landlady, who gave a poetical account of the infiernos, or infernal regions of Loxa, dark caverns, in which subterranean streams and waterfalls make a mysterious sound. The common people say that there are money-coiners shut up there from the time of the Moors, and that the Moorish kings kept their treasures in those caverns.

I retired to bed with my imagination excited by all that I had seen and heard in this old warrior city. Scarce had I fallen asleep when I was aroused by a horrid din and uproar, that might have confounded the hero of La Mancha himself whose experience of Spanish inns was a continual uproar. It seemed for a moment as if the Moors were once more breaking into the town, or the infiernos of which mine hostess talked had broken loose. I sallied forth half dressed to reconnoiter. It was nothing more nor less than a charivari to celebrate the nuptials of an old man with a buxom damsel. Wishing him joy of his bride and his serenade, I returned to my more quiet bed, and slept soundly until morning.

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