by Washington Irving · Ediciones Miguel Sánchez · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471690715
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«Cuentos de la Alhambra Fotos» is the collection of stories by Washington Irving, published by Ediciones Miguel Sánchez in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Collection of stories and sketches born from Washington Irving's stay in Granada and his visits to the Alhambra. Halfway between travel chronicle and literary tale, it brings together legends, popular characters and descriptions of the palace's corners, and sets the action in an Andalusian city seen with romantic sensibility.
Work originally published in English as «Tales of the Alhambra» in 1832; the present Spanish edition was published on 20 December 2007.
Readers interested in classic literature, in Andalusian Granada and in the legends of its palaces.
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.
