by Washington Irving · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423901869
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«Cuentos de la Alhambra» is a collection of tales and legends by Washington Irving, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (220 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together the legends, sketches and narratives that Washington Irving wrote following his visit to the Alhambra in Granada. Between travel chronicle and romantic fiction, it blends the monument's real landscape with traditional stories and evocations of the Andalusian past.
Work originally published as 'Tales of the Alhambra' in 1832. This Spanish edition belongs to Espasa-Calpe's Colección Austral and is the eleventh edition.
For readers interested in travel literature, nineteenth-century classics and the history of Granada, especially 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.
