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A stay in Paris should be just the tonic for a distracted and insular German student. But it is the beginning of the French Revolution and the blood-stained guillotine is doing its grisly work every day. So when the student encounters a beautiful, distraught woman in need of comfort on its steps in the dead of night, he doesn't consider this meeting perhaps as strange as he should.
The Adventure of the German Student is taken from the Victorian Anthologies...
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La leyenda del astrólogo árabe, sin dudas uno de los cuentos de Washington Irving más recordados de aquella colección, nos sitúa en Granada, y relata la historia de un notable astrólogo, cuyo destino ingrato no llegó a vislumbrar en el resplandor distante de las estrellas.
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"El Palacio de la Alhambra" (Cuentos de la Alhambra) de Washington Irving es una colección de ensayos, bocetos y cuentos inspirados en los viajes de Irving a la Alhambra, un palacio árabe en Granada, España. A través de descripciones vívidas y narraciones románticas, Irving captura la belleza, la historia y la mística de la Alhambra, profundizando en su arquitectura, leyendas y significado cultural. El libro incluye relatos ficticios de personajes...
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The popular North American writer Washington Irving was born in New York in 1783. He stayed some time in Spain living in Andalucía and specifically in Granada where he visited La Alhambra and did some historical research on Spanish history. As a result of all these experiences he wrote the famous book "Tales of La Alhambra" which remains one of his most popular works.
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Sinister early American satire from Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 — November 28, 1859) author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. The classic short story "The Devil and Tom Walker" is the dark and eerie tale of a foolish man's greed, hypocrisy and ambition. Puritan writing at its finest. Tom is a debased man, miserly and cruel to his fellows, and even to his wife. The Devil, shows him a grove of rotting trees, representing souls....
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Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend, he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house. Through his eyes as a houseguest, he glimpses the uniquely British customs and celebrations of Christmas as it would have been experienced during the Middle Ages, rather than in the early 19th century.
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Few horror stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. This collection of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, carry you to all corners of the world where terrors lurk. Featuring work by H.P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe and Vernon Lee, experience the skin-crawling undead, a pestilence that leaves no one unaffected, imagined horrors that emerge from disturbed minds and others...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, both appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Irving made his literary debut...
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This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...
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The folks of the valley are a superstitious lot, believing in witches and globlins and ghosts and things they can't see, as much as they believe in the real world around them. This leads to some might adventures for some wonderful characters like Ichabod Crame, Rip Van Winkle, Brom Bones and a host of others. Thrill to the tales of theHeadless Horseman, the long night's sleep that lasted twenty years, and the most surprising ending to any treasure...
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"Cuentos de la Alhambra" es una original novela escrita de Washington Irving quien nos conduce a través de un interesante recorrido por toda Andalucía hasta llegar a Granada donde, alojado en la Alhambra, conocerá de primera mano toda una serie de historias y leyendas que narra al lector. De la mano de Irving, tenemos la oportunidad de disfrutar de una serie de cuentos e historias donde se reflejan todo el pasado árabe de la Alhambra y el presente
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"Kat Van Tassel wants nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow's ghostly history. But when her mother gives her the original Katrina van Tassel's diary on the two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's haunting, a new legend begins to take shape, weaving together the past and the present in eerie ways. When a new girl in town opens Kat's eyes to the possibility that ghosts are real, it makes her question who she truly wants to be...and be with....
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