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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664169143
Table of Contents
THE SKETCH-BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.
THE AUTHOR’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF
THE VOYAGE.
ROSCOE.
THE WIFE.
RIP VAN WINKLE.
A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.
ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA.
RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND.
THE BROKEN HEART.
THE ART OF BOOK-MAKING.
A ROYAL POET.
THE COUNTRY CHURCH.
THE WIDOW AND HER SON.
THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.
A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM.
CHRISTMAS.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.
(FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.)
L’ENVOY.*
THE SKETCH-BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.
“I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men’s fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.”—BURTON.
Original
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.
T HE following papers, with two exceptions, were written in England, and formed but part of an intended series for which I had made notes and memorandums. Before I could mature a plan, however, circumstances compelled me to send them piecemeal to the United States, where they were published from time to time in portions or numbers. It was not my intention to publish them in England, being conscious that much of their contents could be interesting only to American readers, and, in truth, being deterred by the severity with which American productions had been treated by the British press.
By the time the contents of the first volume had appeared in this occasional manner, they began to find their way across the Atlantic, and to be inserted,
