by Washington Irving · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467033977
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«Cuentos de la Alhambra» is a collection of stories and legends by Washington Irving, published by Austral in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
The work stems from Washington Irving's stay at the Alhambra in Granada, where he gathered stories and legends of the place during a gathering near the Plaza de los Aljibes. Its pages combine descriptions of the palace and its corners with fantastical tales, oral traditions, and evocations of the city's Andalusian past.
Edition by Antonio Gallego Morell and translation by J. Ventura Traveset. The original title of the work is «Tales of the Alhambra». It belongs to the Clásica collection, Narrativa series.
For readers of classic literature and travel writing, as well as those interested in Granada and its heritage.
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.
