Old Christmas

By Washington Irving

A fantastic festive tale by American author, essayist, biographer and historian Washington Irving.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AUK Classics
• Release date: Jun 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781781665848

Washington Irving

Nueva York, 1783 - Sunnyside, 1859. Escritor norteamericano perteneciente al mundo literario del costumbrismo. Washington Irving es el primer autor americano que utiliza la literatura para hacer reír y caricaturizar la realidad, creando además el estilo coloquial que después utilizarían Mark Twain y Hemingway.

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Reviews for Old Christmas

[dasam-5 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A look back to when Christmas was fading as a holiday in pre-Dickins England and American Washington Irving was nostalgic for the old ways of celebrating.

[clicksclan · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Quick and interesting read about how Christmas was celebrated in the past.Liked the way it was divided up into the different aspects of Christmas; travelling for the celebration, Christmas Eve, the morning, Christmas dinner.Interesting to see which traditions have continued, perhaps without people knowing exactly why.Very well written, Irving painted a picture so you could easily imagine the scenes he was describing.Would like to know when this was written, I would guess around Victorian era.

[muldoon_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

"Old Christmas" is an 1875 collection of Christmas stories first appearing Washington Irving's "Sketch Book" published in 1819-1820. . It is a wondrous thing to read laments about how the modern world had lost some of the Christmas magic. At the same time, Irving captures Christmas essences, like families and food and a general spirit of generosity. BTW bought this book at a library book sale.