By Washington Irving
ISBN-10: 0585202206
ISBN-13: 9780585202204
ISBN-10: 0940450593
ISBN-13: 9780940450592
3 tale collections of serious urbanity and poise from the 1st American writer to burst onto the overseas literary scene. "The Alhambra," Irving's "Spanish Sketchbook," used to be encouraged through his 1829 place of dwelling on the historic Moorish palace at Granada; weaving background, legend, and outline, it continues to be the simplest guidebook to this haunting position. Over a hundred and twenty stories in all.
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The good squire returned with his prattling charge to his strong hold, where he has brought her up with a tenderness truly paternal. As he has taken some pains to superintend her education, and form her taste, she has grown up with many of his notions, and considers him the wisest, as well as the best of men. Much of her time, too, has been passed with Lady Lillycraft, who has instructed her in the manners of the old school, and enriched her mind with all kinds of novels and romances. Indeed, her ladyship has had a great hand in promoting the match between Julia and the captain, having had them together at her country seat, the moment she found there was an attachment growing up between them; the good lady being never so happy as when she has a pair of turtles cooing about her.
Newberry was the first that ever filled my infant mind with the idea of a great and good man. " I have mentioned these circumstances, worthy reader, to show you the whimsical crowd of associations that are apt to beset my mind on mingling among English scenes. I hope they may, in some measure, plead my apology, should I be found harping upon stale and trivial themes, or indulging an over-fondness for any thing antique and obsolete. I know it is the humour, not to say cant of the day, to run riot about Page 11 old times, old books, old customs, and old buildings; with myself, however, as far as I have caught the contagion, the feeling is genuine.
Having been born and brought up in a new country, yet educated from infancy in the literature of an old one, my mind was early filled with historical and poetical associations, connected with places, and manners, and customs of Europe; but which could rarely be applied to those of my own country. To a mind thus peculiarly prepared, the most ordinary objects and scenes, on arriving in Europe, are full of strange matter and interesting novelty. England is as classic ground to an American as Italy is to an Englishman; and old London teems with as much historical association as mighty Rome.
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