Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent: Together With Abbotsford and Other Selections From the Writings of Washington Irving
The use of the technical terms of narrative art has been avoided where possible. The pupils for whom this edition is designed are reading for the sake Of the literature itself, and they slip, too easily, on the least excuse, into the formalities of text-book distinctions, without appreciation of the mean ing intended. Literature should be opened to their under standings as a storehouse of treasures to be enjoyed at will as a foreign land wherein one wanders with friendly and companionable guides; as a return to past ages, and a min gling in vanished scenes, recreated by the magic pen of the man of letters. Unless these topics for study, arranged in seeming routine for the classroom, contribute to this end, they will fail of the result to further which they have been written.
The indirect purposes of the study of Irving's essays will best fulfill themselves under the personal guidance of the instructor. They should, however, be clearly defined, and may be summarized brie?y as follows.
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