Tales of a Traveller
Book by Washington Irving
0-940450-59-3 (reprint)
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Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a two-volume collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published under Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Contents
VOLUME I
After the introductory "To the Reader", Tales of a Traveller is composed of four "Parts."
Part I: Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman
- "The Great Unknown"
- "The Hunting Dinner"
- "The Adventure of My Uncle"
- "The Adventure of My Aunt"
- "The Bold Dragoon; or, the Adventure of My Grandfather"
- "The Adventure of the German Student"
- "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture"
- "The Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger"
- "The Story of the Young Italian"
Part II: Buckthorne and His Friends
- "Literary Life"
- "A Literary Dinner"
- "The Club of Queer Fellows"
- "The Poor-Devil Author"
- "Notoriety"
- "A Practical Philosopher"
- "Buckthorne; or, the Young Man of Great Expectations"
VOLUME II
- "Grave Reflections of a Disappointed Man"
- "The Booby Squire"
- "The Strolling Manager"
Part III: The Italian Banditti
- "The Inn at Terracina"
- "The Adventure of the Little Antiquary"
- "The Belated Travellers"
- "The Adventure of the Popkins Family"
- "The Painter's Adventure"
- "The Story of the Bandit Chieftain"
- "The Story of the Young Robber"
- "The Adventure of the Englishman"
Part IV: The Money Diggers
- "Hell-Gate"
- "Kidd the Pirate"
- "The Devil and Tom Walker"
- "Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams"
- "The Adventure of the Black Fisherman"
External links
- Tales of a Traveller at Project Gutenberg
- Tales of a Traveller public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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collections
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819–20)
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
- "Rip Van Winkle"
- Bracebridge Hall (1822)
- Tales of a Traveller (1824)
- "The Adventure of the German Student"
- "Kidd the Pirate"
- "The Devil and Tom Walker"
- Tales of the Alhambra (1832)
history
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828)
- Astoria (1836)
- Mahomet and His Successors (1850)
- Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1802)
- Salmagundi (1807–08)
- A History of New York (1809)
- William Irving (brother)
- Peter Irving (brother)
- Diedrich Knickerbocker (character, pen name)
- Ichabod Crane (character)
- Headless Horseman (character)
- Anthony Van Corlaer (character)
- Sunnyside (home and museum)
- Knickerbocker Group
- Washington Irving Memorial
- Washington Irving Memorial Park and Arboretum
- Irving Literary Society
- PS Washington Irving