The cover page is adapted from The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, a painting completed in 1858 by John Quidor. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quidorwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
章节(36)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Preface to the Revised Edition 0:21
- The Author’s Account of Himself 13:27
- The Voyage 20:14
- Roscoe 35:43
- The Wife 51:42
- Rip Van Winkle 1:10:23
- English Writers on America 1:57:04
- Rural Life in England 2:19:28
- The Broken Heart 2:36:42
- The Art of Book-Making 2:50:31
- A Royal Poet 3:07:35
- The Country Church 3:40:17
- The Widow and Her Son 3:52:32
- A Sunday in London 4:10:26
- The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap 4:15:00
- The Mutability of Literature 4:40:28
- Rural Funerals 5:05:20
- The Inn Kitchen 5:32:20
- The Spectre Bridegroom 5:36:54
- Westminster Abbey 6:12:50
- Christmas 6:40:53
- The Stage Coach 6:54:02
- Christmas Eve 7:08:50
- Christmas Day 7:34:13
- The Christmas Dinner 8:04:00
- London Antiques 8:33:18
- Little Britain 8:46:52
- Stratford-on-Avon 9:19:12
- Traits of Indian Character 10:01:13
- Philip of Pokanoket 10:28:27
- John Bull 11:07:48
- The Pride of the Village 11:34:55
- The Angler 11:56:20
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 12:17:35
- L’Envoy 13:35:32
Initially published throughout 1819 and 1820, The Sketchbook is a collection of 34 essays and short stories, collected and ordered according to the Author’s Revised Edition published in 1848. The Sketchbook is the first publication to use Irving’s pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, which he would carry into later works.
The stories vary in nature, from the comical “The Mutability of Literature” to the eerie and seemingly supernatural “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” but the personality of their narrator, Geoffrey Crayon, connects the stories and attracts their readers. Some stories are written on American topics, forming the need for separate American and English editions, and others consist of English life and landscape, written from the perspective of living in England for a time.
Two of the stories, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” are Irving’s most well-known works, and are presented as posthumous writings of fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. From these stories came the iconic characters Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horseman.