by Washington Irving · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420619385
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«Cuentos de la Alhambra» is the collection of stories by Washington Irving, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Washington Irving gained access to the Alhambra palace during his stay in Granada and gathered in this book sketches, chronicles and legends inspired by the monument. The work blends the evocation of its rooms and gardens with the popular imagination surrounding the Nasrid complex, rescuing traditions and stories linked to its walls.
Original title: Tales of the Alhambra, published in 1832. Edition by Alianza Editorial in El libro de bolsillo, number 938.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century travel literature and historical legends about Andalusian Granada.
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.
