The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short storieswritten by Washington Irving. The collection was published in 1819 and 1820 and contains two works to which Irving are widely known derives, namely The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle. It was the first time that Irving wrote under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, that he would continue to use during his further career.

The Sketch Book was, along with James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, one of the first American literary works that were read in England and the rest ofEurope. ==Content[ Edit] == The stories and essays are listed here in the order they appear in the book as well.


 * "The author's Account of Himself
 * "The Voyage"
 * "Roscoe"
 * "The Wife"
 * "Rip van Winkle"
 * "English Writers on America"
 * "Rural Life in England"
 * "The Broken Heart"
 * "The Art of Bookmaking"
 * "A Royal Poet"
 * "The Country Church"
 * "The Widow and Her Son"
 * "A Sunday in London"
 * "The boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap"
 * "The Mutability of Literature"
 * "Rural Funerals"
 * "The Inn Kitchen"
 * "The Spectre Bridegroom"
 * "Westminster Abbey"
 * "Christmas"
 * "The Stage-Coach"
 * "Christmas Eve"
 * "Christmas Day"
 * "Christmas Dinner"
 * "London Antiques"
 * "Little Britain"
 * "Stratford-on-Avon"
 * "Traits of Indian Character"
 * "Philip of Pokanoket"
 * "John Bull"
 * "The Pride of The Village"
 * "The Angler"
 * "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
 * "L'Envoy"