This Tarrytown, N.Y. author's cross-country trip was the source for his 1835 book "A Tour on the Prairies"
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Washington Irving - Biography in Context - Gale  As a writer by profession, with the Sketch Book (1819-1820) in particular, ... He was born in New York, which as the first capital of the new nation was a cultural ... the Jonathan Oldstyle pieces in his Author's Revised Edition of 1848-1851. ...... First came A Tour on the Prairies , the first part of the Crayon Miscellany (1835).
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Jeopary Questions page 1457 - JACKIE GLEASON - TriviaBistro.com  ... allowed to be made in Mecca  OLD TRAVEL BOOKS: This Tarrytown, N.Y. author's cross-country trip was the source for his 1835 book "A Tour on the Prairies"...
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The Origins of the novel  The book usually identified as the first American novel is William Hill Brown's The Power .... wealth of unused literary material in German folktales, where Irving found his source ... Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are attempts to transport .... 1835: A Tour on the Prairies published in The Crayon Miscellany.
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WASHINGTON IRVING. - Commemoration of the Birth and Death of ...  Eulogy Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society by William Cullen Bryant. ... a more fitting source, than that offered last evening by the NewYork Historical ... His admirable writings, the beautiful products of his peculiar genius, remain to ... William Irving, the father of the great author, was a native of Scotland -- one of...
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The American Myth in Washington Irving's The Legend of the Sleepy ...  Irving's The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow ... His writings show the formulation of the American .... Washington Irving was born in New York as the youngest ... enthusiastic welcome as the first American author to have ... The Sketch Book (1820), A Tour on the Prairies (1835), The .... comparison to the rough country people.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AS A MULTI-GENRE TEXT ...  In 1726, the first edition of Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ... fable and satire has entertained and confounded readers for the better part ... which describes that narrator's visit to the Houyhnhnmsa race of rational ... satire, comedy, tragedy (to some extent),the use of fantasy and travelogue ruling the text.
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Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world, By ...  Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world, By Jonathan Swift: and ... then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, ... He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms  such as Lemuel...
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Book #84: On The Road | 101 Books  Jan 8, 2016 ... Of Kerouac, Truman Capote once said, That's not writing. .... The Beats were saying, basically, Not everyone is living the same American dream. LikeLike ... I read On the Road for the first time last year (and reviewed it on my blog) and I just could not stand it! ... That's not writing, it's just typing Beautiful.
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The Original "Travels With Charley" Timeline | The Truth About ...  In the fall of 2010 I wanted to retrace Steinbeck's route as faithfully as possible to see the America he saw and to compare his real trip with the mythic one he...
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Travels with Charley - Wikipedia  Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World: In Four ...  Editorial Reviews. From School Library Journal. Gr 7 Up-Jonathan Swift's satirical novel was ... Four-part satirical novel by Jonathan Swift, published anonymously in 1726 as Travels Into Several Remote .... Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is classic work of satire and adventure that hardly needs my recommendation.
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Mark Twain: 'the true father of all American literature' ?  Apr 16, 2010 ... Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr ... Jerome Loving follows the well-known story of Twain's life with a nice edging of ... Mencken's question is the easier of the two to answer. ... His first bestselling book was a travelogue, The Innocents Abroad (1869).
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THE JOYS OF READING - NYTimes.com  May 16, 1982 ... He continued down the Ohio to the Mississippi at Cairo, Ill., and down ... Search All NYTimes.com ... I had found the Homewood Library, stumbled across ''The Field Book ... I never saw her there, but I did see Henry, my grandmother's chauffeur. ... Mark Twain accused Andrew Carnegie of purchasing fame.
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Travels with Charley - Wikipedia  Publication date. 1962. Media type, Print. Pages, 288. OCLC  13580264. Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle, Charley. .... Steinbeck then traveled west across Upstate New York to Niagara Falls and...
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Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift : chapter37 - eBooks@Adelaide  By conversing with the Houyhnhnms, and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture, which is now grown into a habit; and my friends...
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New Discovery of a Vast Country in America by Louis Hennepin ...  PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Publication Year 2016; Not Signed; Fast Shipping .... the first was on the same boat as the explorer Ren-Robert Cavalier de La Salle, .... A Recollet missionary, Father Hennepin went to New France in 1675, and in ... visit to Niagara Falls, which was the first published account of a visit there.
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Return to Sleepy Hollow, from an essay by Washington Irving  In addition to the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving wrote a short essay ... a valley of the Pocantico River near Tarrytown, New York, and eventually settled and .... of similar names, but various dates, showed that generation after generation of .... A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond,...
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Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia  Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and .... It is uncertain exactly when Swift started writing Gulliver's Travels (much of the writing...
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Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world, By ...  Jul 31, 2016 ... The book became popular as soon as it was published. ... Swift is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, ... Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world, By Jonathan Swift ... commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish...
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Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in ... - Goodreads  One young food writer's search for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans ..... The author lost me after that, going into Prairie Chickens, and I stuck it out. .... in 1879, while at about a year into the European tour that led to his A Tramp Abroad. .... Following a list of food items that Mark Twain yearned for while traveling...
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Mark Twain - Wikipedia  Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835  April 21, 1910), better known by his pen .... Twain describes the episode in his book Roughing It. ... During his tour of Europe and the Middle East, he wrote a popular collection of travel letters, which were later compiled as The Innocents Abroad (1869). It was on this trip...