Tales of the Alhambra (Viajes y costumbrismo) - Softcover

Washington Irving (1783-1859), considerado "patriarca de la literatura americana" y "el mejor escritor de habla inglesa de su tiempo", narra en libro las fascinantes leyendas populares relacionadas con la Alhambra, recogidas en su visita a España en 1829. Con 32 páginas de láminas a todo color de la Alhambra y grabados de la época.

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) was born in New York and studied law; on account of his poor health he went to Europe in 1804. He visited Rome, Paris, the Netherlands and London, and in 1806 returned to New York where he was admitted to the bar. His first writing was in Salmagundi (1807), a semi-monthly sheet in imitation of the Spectator which ran for twenty numbers. His first work, A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809), was a good-natured burlesque upon the old Dutch settlers of Manhattan Island.