Crayon Papers

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776675616
• Edition: 0

Washington Irving first made an international literary splash with the essay collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. This follow-up volume contains a similarly charming mix of sketches, observations, humor writing, and other short pieces.

Table of contents

• THE CRAYON PAPERS
• Contents
• Mountjoy: Or Some Passages Out of the Life of a Castle-Builder
• The Great Mississippi Bubble — "A Time of Unexampled Prosperity"
• Don Juan: A Spectral Research
• Broek: Of the Dutch Paradise
• Sketches in Paris in 1825 — From the Traveling Note-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
• American Researches in Italy — Life of Tasso: Recovery of a Lost Portrait of Dante
• The Taking of the Veil
• The Charming Letorières
• The Seminoles
• Origin of the White, the Red, and the Black Men — A Seminole Tradition
• The Conspiracy of Neamathla — An Authentic Sketch
• Letter from Granada
• Abderahman: Founder of the Dynasty of the Ommiades of Spain
• The Widow's Ordeal: Or a Judicial Trial by Combat
• The Creole Village: A Sketch from a Steamboat
• A Contented Man
• Endnotes