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eBook details
- Title: Astoria
- Author : Washington Irving
- Release Date : January 30, 2009
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Travel & Adventure,Essays & Memoirs,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2093 KB
Description
In 1836, Irving published " Astoria ; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains ;" a somewhat curious example of literary skill. A voluminous commercial correspondence was the dull ore of the earth which he reο¬ned and wrought into symmetry and splendor. Irving reduced to a regular narrative the events to which it referred, bringing out the picturesque whenever he found it, and enlivening the whole with touches of his native humor. His nephew, Pierre M. Irving, lightened his labor materially by examining and collating the letters and making memoranda of their contents.