- Hardcover: 328 pages
- Publisher: Aegypan (December 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1598181351
- ISBN-13: 978-1598181357
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 621 g
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Nearly all readers today know Washington Irving as the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving is one of America's most enduring, and beloved authors. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, a Medley was originally published in 1819 as written by one of Irving's pseudonyms, Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. One of Irving's better-known pseudonyms was Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name inextricably linked to New York City, and to today's New York Knicks. Bracebridge Hall's introduction greets readers with Irving's wonderment at being America's first internationally-popular author, for he writes, "I was looked upon as something new and strange in literature; a kind of demi-savage." Full of anecdotes of traveling and British culture, Bracebridge Hall provides a glimpse of the American point of view on England at the start of the 19th Century. A showpiece for Irving's humor, Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, a Medley, will please readers today as they were pleased at its original publication.
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Humdrum sketches, with a scattering of brilliant gems, Jun 1 2006
By D. Cloyce Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bracebridge Hall or the Humorists (Paperback)
Published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, "Bracebridge Hall" is a sequel of sorts to "The Sketch Book." Less a novel than a series of sketches--or a "medley," to use Irving's term from the title page--these tales revolve around the inhabitants of an English manor (based on the real Aston Hall, where Irving often stayed), the characters living in the village nearby, and the stories they tell. The "plot," such as it is, concerns the gathering of relations for a wedding. "In a word," Irving admits, "I cannot foresee a single extraordinary event that is likely to occur in the whole of my sojourn at the Hall."As a collection, it's certainly not Irving's best (which is largely why it's so hard to find in print). Most of the character sketches rarely rise above type: the English squire, the old general, the widow, the servants. A few, however, humorously evoke remarkable eccentrics: the village "radical," Christy the crotchety huntsman, the gypsy who still retains the squire's sympathies after he's accused of stealing a sheep. Irving's recollection of the village's May Day celebration is particularly amusing.
Even more valuable are the masterful stories ("told" by various characters staying in Bracebridge Hall) that are hidden among these profiles and that stand on their own. The most famous of these is the ghost story "Dolph Heyliger" (and its story-within-a-story, "The Ghost-Ship"), but readers should not miss "The Stout Gentleman," a simple story about a mysterious apparition; "Annette Delarbre," an affecting love story; and especially "The Student of Salamanca," an overlooked gem of intrigue and suspense.
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