Vol 1 of the 2-vol Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, a collection of essays written by Washington Irving under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, containing the stories:
- The Author’s Account of Himself
- The Voyage
- Roscoe
- The Wife
- Rip Van Winkle
- 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
- The Mutability of Literature
- Rural Funerals
- The Inn Kitchen
- The Spectre Bridegroom
- Westminster Abbey
About the book (from Wikipedia):
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving’s best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” [not included in Vol 1] and “Rip Van Winkle”. It also marks Irving’s first use of the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career.
The Sketch Book, along with James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, was among first widely read works of American literature in Britain and Europe. It also helped advance the reputation of American writers with an international audience.
