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Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16)

The Sketch Book / A History of New York / Salmagundi / Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

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Engelsk
Library of America Washington Irving Edition
Washington Irving:  History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16)
Washington Irving:  History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16)
  • Forfatter: Washington Irving
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 1144
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Library of America Washington Irving Edition
  • EAN: 9780940450141
  • Utgivelsesår: 1983
  • Bidragsyter: Irving, Washington
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Washington Irving’s career as a writer began obscurely at age seventeen, when his brother’s newspaper published his series of comic reports on the theater, theater-goers, fashions, balls, courtships, duels, and marriages of his contemporary New York, called Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. Written in the persona of an elderly gentleman of the old school, these letters captured his fellow townsmen at play in their most incongruous attitudes of simple sophistication. Irving’s next work, Salmagundi, written in collaboration with his brother William and James Kirke Paulding, and published at irregular intervals in 1805–06, continued this roguish style of satire and burlesque. 

A History of New York
, publicized by an elaborate hoax in the local newspapers concerning the disappearance of the elderly “Diedrich Knickerbocker,” turned out to be a wild and hilarious spoof that combined real New York history with po