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prepared by Nelson Nieves

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
by Washington Irving

CONTENTS: Preface The Author's Account of Himself The Voyage
Roscoe The Wife Rip Van Winkle English Writers on America Rural
Life in England The Broken Heart The Art of Book-making A Royal
Poet The Country Church The Widow and her Son A Sunday in
London The Boar's Head Tavern The Mutability of Literature Rural
Funerals The Inn Kitchen The Spectre Bridegroom Westminster Abbey
Christmas The Stage-Coach Christmas Eve Christmas Day The
Christmas Dinner London Antiques Little Britain Statford-on-Avon
Traits of Indian Character Philip of Pokanoket John Bull The Pride of
the Village The Angler The Legend of Sleepy Hollow L'Envoy

THE SKETCH-BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.
by WASHINGTON IRVING.

"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere
spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play
their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a
common theatre or scene."--BURTON.

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.
THE following papers, with two exceptions, were written in England,
and formed but part of an intended series for which I had made notes
and memorandums. Before I could mature a plan, however,
circumstances compelled me to send them piecemeal to the United
States, where they were published from time to time in portions or
numbers. It was not my intention to publish them in England, being
conscious that much of their contents could be interesting only to
American readers, and, in truth, being deterred by the severity with
which American productions had been treated by the British press.
By the time the contents of the first volume had appeared in this
occasional manner, they began to find their way across the Atlantic,
and to be inserted, with many kind encomiums, in the London Literary
Gazette. It was said, also, that a London bookseller intended to publish
them in a collective form. I determined, therefore, to bring them
forward myself, that they might at least have the benefit of my
superintendence and revision. I accordingly took the printed numbers
which I had received from the United States, to Mr. John Murray, the
eminent publisher, from whom I had already received friendly
attentions, and left them with him for examination, informing him that
should he be inclined to bring them before the public, I had materials
enough on hand for a second volume. Several days having elapsed
without any communication from Mr. Murray, I addressed a note to
him, in which I construed his silence into a tacit rejection of my work,
and begged that the numbers I had left with him might be returned to
me. The following was his reply:
MY DEAR SIR: I entreat you to believe that