Washington Irving

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Rip Van Winkle & the Legend of Sleepy Hollow: In the first of these stories, Rip Van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred years. A pretty face: Zoe Baker works in a bookstore....

Sinister early American satire from Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 — November 28, 1859) author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. The classic short story "The Devil and Tom Walker" is the dark and eerie tale of a foolish man's greed, hypocrisy and ambition. Puritan writing at its finest. Tom is a debased man, miserly and cruel to his fellows, and even to his wife. The Devil, shows him a grove of rotting trees, representing souls....

"Rip Van Winkle" de Washington Irving cuenta la historia de un hombre que se queda dormido en las montañas Catskill y se despierta décadas después en un mundo cambiado. La historia explora temas del tiempo, el cambio y las consecuencias de descuidar las propias responsabilidades.

A stay in Paris should be just the tonic for a distracted and insular German student. But it is the beginning of the French Revolution and the blood-stained guillotine is doing its grisly work every day. So when the student encounters a beautiful, distraught woman in need of comfort on its steps in the dead of night, he doesn't consider this meeting perhaps as strange as he should. The Adventure of the German Student is taken from the Victorian Anthologies...

La leyenda del astrólogo árabe, sin dudas uno de los cuentos de Washington Irving más recordados de aquella colección, nos sitúa en Granada, y relata la historia de un notable astrólogo, cuyo destino ingrato no llegó a vislumbrar en el resplandor distante de las estrellas.

"El Palacio de la Alhambra" (Cuentos de la Alhambra) de Washington Irving es una colección de ensayos, bocetos y cuentos inspirados en los viajes de Irving a la Alhambra, un palacio árabe en Granada, España. A través de descripciones vívidas y narraciones románticas, Irving captura la belleza, la historia y la mística de la Alhambra, profundizando en su arquitectura, leyendas y significado cultural. El libro incluye relatos ficticios de personajes...

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow es un relato de fantasmas escrito por Washington Irving en 1820 de los más populares e importantes de la cultura norteamericana siendo así uno de los relatos más típicos en las noches de Halloween y ha tenido muchas adaptaciones a cine, teatro y televisión. Narra la andanzas de un profesor de escuela extremadamente supersticioso llamado Ichabod Crane que se enamora de la joven Katrina...

This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...