by Washington Irving · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423972098
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«Cuentos de la Alhambra» is the collection of tales and legends by Washington Irving, published by Espasa in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together stories and legends inspired by the Alhambra and Spanish oral tradition, the fruit of Irving's stay in Granada. It combines the gaze of the romantic traveler with the evocation of the Andalusian past and its tales of kings, warriors and popular figures, in a tone that blends the historical and the marvelous.
Edition by Antonio Gallego Morell included in the Austral Collection. Work originally published in English in 1832 as 'Tales of the Alhambra'.
For readers of travel and romantic literature interested in the history and legends of Granada and in the figure of Washington Irving.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
