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Title: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

Author: Washington Irving

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby creating the first classic American short stories: "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

Editorial Reviews:

Washington Irving created the quintessential dark American fable in The Headless Horseman. Irving thought deeply about history and the act of writing. He practiced writing in many styles. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is a collection of Irvings various trial runs and musings. His career-defining works are framed here. Irvings fictions can be romantic, funny, gothic, supernatural, or satirical. For present day audiences the stories have an antique quality; they are period pieces that invite you to travel back in time. Narrator Brian Troxell does something unusual: He reads Irvings writing in a brisk and modern tone. Troxells quick and easy delivery makes Irvings writing seem far less mannered and dated, although the fantastic and haunting images still come through without distortion.

Members Reviews:

excellent

Washington Irving has got to be one of the best American authors that I've ever read. He is so descriptive of the people and their surroundings, one can get totally lost in just the beautiful descriptions.

While reading "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", I recalled the Disney animation and seeing the description that Irving gave in the story,I was taken back to my youth. What a delightful story! If you didn't read any other story in this book, it would be worth the price. It's also a really scary story aside from the humor in it.

You will be absolutely satisfied with this book even if this is the only story that you read.

The price of course was free, so there's no problem there and I am sure that you will enjoy it all.

"...bright gems of wisdom and golden veins of language."

Not to be read quickly and to be savored like fine wine, Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon" is a matchless classic in American Literature. Written in 1820 and destined to become a true American literary pantheon (along with his preceeding work "Diedrich Knickerboker's History of New York), Irving introduces us to timeless observations and wit that ultimately become enduring discources defining early American Literature.

Irving's mantra with this work is a set of observations, indeed "sketches" of his many travels and musings while roaming through England and his home in upstate New York along the Hudson River. The eternal figures of Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane are evoked in this tome and set a literary standard that others aspire to, but one that Irving effortlessly achieves time and again. Not only does this volume frame these two classics, "The Sketch Book" also contains other literary giants such as "The Angler", "John Bull", "Philip of Pokanoket", "The Specter Bridegroom", "The Mutability of Literature" and "The Art of Bookmaking" wherein the essence of Irving's literary style is neatly conveyed in the following:

"Being now in possesion of the secert, I sat down in a corner and watched the process of this book manufactory.