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    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
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    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

    By Washington Irving

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    Washington Irving is best known for spooky stories set in the early part of 18th century America but here he looks back to the England that he traveled to in his younger days. There's a grand old country family with it's patriarch who entertains his extended family and even part of the village he heads.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateMar 20, 2020
    ISBN9783962723569
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    Washington Irving

    Nueva York, 1783 - Sunnyside, 1859. Escritor norteamericano perteneciente al mundo literario del costumbrismo. Washington Irving es el primer autor americano que utiliza la literatura para hacer reír y caricaturizar la realidad, creando además el estilo coloquial que después utilizarían Mark Twain y Hemingway.

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      Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Washington Irving

      Old

      Christmas

      :

      FROM THE

      Sketch Book

      of

      Washington Irving.

      Illustrated by

      R Caldecott

      The old family mansion, partly thrown in deep shadow, and partly lit up by the cold moonshine

      —Frontispiece.

      PREFACE

      Before the remembrance of the good old times, so fast passing, should have entirely passed away, the present artist, R. Caldecott, and engraver, James D. Cooper, planned to illustrate Washington Irving's Old Christmas in this manner. Their primary idea was to carry out the principle of the Sketch Book, by incorporating the designs with the text. Throughout they have worked together and con amore. With what success the public must decide.

      November

      1875.

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      DESIGNED BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT,

      AND

      ARRANGED AND ENGRAVED BY J. D. COOPER.

      CHRISTMAS

      There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present. I regret to say that they are daily growing more and more faint, being gradually worn away by time, but still more obliterated by modern fashion. They resemble those picturesque morsels of Gothic architecture which we see crumbling in various parts of the country, partly dilapidated by the waste of ages, and partly lost in the additions and alterations of latter days. Poetry, however, clings with cherishing fondness about the rural game and holiday revel, from which it has derived so many of its themes—as the ivy winds its rich foliage about the Gothic arch and mouldering tower, gratefully repaying their support by clasping together their tottering remains, and, as it were, embalming them in verdure.

      Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality, and lifts the spirit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment. The services of the church about this season are extremely tender and inspiring. They dwell on

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