by Washington Irving · Mateos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449500244
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«Leyendas de la Alhambra» is Washington Irving's collection of tales, published by Mateos in paperback (187 pages, in Spanish).
Washington Irving is the connecting thread: after travelling through Andalusia, he stays at the Alhambra and gathers legends and traditions of the Nasrid past told by its inhabitants. It combines views of the palace, travel memories and popular narratives that evoke the history and mystery of the Granada monument.
This edition translates the original work «The Alhambra» and belongs to the collection «Clásicos de siempre» (number 24).
For readers of classics of Romantic and travel literature interested in Andalusian heritage and its traditions.
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.
