The Alhambra - Softcover

Irving, Washington

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ISBN 10: 1409777065 ISBN 13: 9781409777069

Publisher: Goldberg Press, 2014

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Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving travelled from Seville to Granada in 1829 where he requested access from the governor and archbishop of Grenoble which he was swiftly granted due to his celebrity status. He took up residence in the Alhambra palace which is where he wrote most of this volume.

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Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Following his return to the U.S. in 1846, he began work on a five-volume biography of Washington that was published from 1855-1859. Washington Irving died in 1859 in New York.

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