The Christmas dinner, from "The sketch book" by Washington Irving
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"The Christmas Dinner, from 'The Sketch Book'" by Washington Irving is an essay published between 1819 and 1820. Part of Irving's celebrated collection written under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, this piece offers a charming vignette of English life and customs. Among a series of sketches that helped establish American literature's reputation abroad, this work showcases Irving's characteristic warmth and observational style as he captures the traditions and atmosphere of an English Christmas
celebration during his time living in England. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 75301645 |
| Title | The Christmas dinner, from "The sketch book" |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sketch_Book_of_Geoffrey_Crayon,_Gent. |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 50.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Christmas stories |
| Subject | American fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 64092 |
| Release Date | Dec 21, 2020 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 419 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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