Washington Irving The Skeich Book---a collection of 32 essays,sketches,and tales.The short story as a genre in American literature began with this book. The period from 1810 to 1840: the“Knickerbocker era” New York City as the centre of American writing “Knickerbockers”(i.e.,writers)
Washington Irving The Sketch Book --- a collection of 32 essays, sketches, and tales. The short story as a genre in American literature began with this book. The period from 1810 to 1840: the “Knickerbocker era” New York City as the centre of American writing “Knickerbockers”(i.e., writers)
Washington Irving Literary works: A History of New York (1809) by Diedrich Knickerbocker The Sketch Book of Geaffrey Crayon,Gent(1819-1820) A Tour of the Prairies(1835) Rip Van Winkle” "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Biographies of George Washington,Oliver Goldsmith and Christopher Columbus
Washington Irving Literary works: A History of New York (1809) by Diedrich Knickerbocker The Sketch Book of Geof rey Crayon, Gent (1819-1820) A Tour of the Prairies (1835) “Rip Van Winkle” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Christopher Columbus