Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. by Washington Irving - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Washington Irving

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788775427

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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The Complete Works of

WASHINGTON IRVING

VOLUME 7 OF 20

Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2014

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‘Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.’

Washington Irving: Parts Edition (in 20 parts)

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Washington Irving: Parts Edition

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WASHINGTON IRVING

IN 20 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Short Story Collections

1, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

2, Bracebridge Hall

3, Tales of a Traveller

4, Tales of the Alhambra

5, The Crayon Miscellany

6, Wolfert’s Roost

The Satires

7, Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

8, A History of New York

The Plays

9, Abu Hassan

10, The Wild Huntsman

The Poetry

11, The Complete Poetry

The Non-Fiction

12, A Tour on the Praries

13, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada

14, Astoria

15, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. the Rocky Mountains

16, Life of Oliver Goldsmith

17, Life of George Washington: Volume I

The Criticism

18, The Criticism

The Biographies

19, Washington Irving by Henry W. Boynton

20, Washington Irving by Charles Dudley Warner

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Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

Irving’s first published book is a collection of nine observational letters that first appeared in 1802 in the New York Morning Chronicle, a political-leaning newspaper, edited by the author’s brother. The letters were printed at irregular intervals until April 23, 1803, and they satirically discuss such themes as marriage, manners, dress, and culture of early 19th century New York. The genre of observational letters dates as far back as the 1720s, when Benjamin Franklin wrote similar letters to the New-England Courant under the name of Silence Dogood. These works were to become a staple feature of colonial newspapers, usually involving a bachelor observer, who comments his opinions on public truths and follies typical of the time.

Irving’s first letter appeared in the November 15, 1802, mocking the current trends in dress and fashion, particularly criticising young men and their most studied carelessness, and almost slovenliness of dress, who are more interested in themselves than in the unfortunate belle who has to undergo the fatigue of dragging along this sluggish animal.

The letters were well-received in New York, with the public enjoying them so much that the Chronicle co-publisher Aaron Burr was impressed enough to send copies of the first five letters to his daughter Theodosia — a rare occurrence for this fastidious publisher. However, Irving would later look back on the letters as crude and boyish and he was greatly alarmed when they were reprinted in London, following his great success The Sketch Book. For many years after this, Irving refused to reprint the letters. Nevertheless, they are an amusing and light-hearted read, providing entertaining sketches of old New York life and the vanities of its citizens.

Irving as a young man

CONTENTS

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE.

LETTER I.

LETTER II.

LETTER III.

LETTER IV.

LETTER V.

LETTER VI.

LETTER VII.

LETTER VIII.

Aaron Burr,