Category: Short Stories
How few years comprise the history of American literature is strikingly suggested by the fact that so much of it can be covered by the reminiscence of a single man of letters.[1] A life beginning in the ’20’s had actual touch in boyhood with Irving, and seized fresh from the p...
How few years comprise the history of American literature is strikingly suggested by the fact that so much of it can be covered by the reminiscence of a single man of letters.[1...
3. PART IFor a discussion of Irving in general, and of _Rip Van Winkle_ in particular, see pages 6–9 of the Introduction. The pseudo-documentary notes before and after the tale show inci...
4. volume xlvii, page 354), with a letter dated at Little Rock, August 15,1838. (The American Cyclopedia puts the original publication of these at Boston, 1831.) After serving against Mexico and in the Confederacy, he gave himself mainly to the practi...
5. PART IIThe moonbeams came through two deep and narrow windows, and showed a spacious chamber richly furnished in an antique fashion. From one lattice the shadow of the diamond panes wa...