by Washington Irving · Editorial Everest · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788424128050
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«Contes de l'Alhambra» is a collection of travel tales by Washington Irving, published by Editorial Everest in paperback (256 pages, in French).
A collection of tales and sketches inspired by Washington Irving's stay in Granada, where the author explores the Alhambra and recreates legends, traditions and scenes of local life around the monument. History, landscape and fiction combine in these pages to convey the fascination that the Andalusian complex aroused in the traveller.
This is the 11th edition, published in 1994 in the «Viajes y costumbrismo» collection; the original title is «Tales of the Alhambra».
For readers who want to approach, in French, a classic of travel literature and the legends of the Alhambra.
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.
