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country-house sketches, folklore, humor, memory, and transatlantic manners.

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Bracebridge Hall

Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving is a public-domain literature classic centered on country-house sketches, folklore, humor, memory, and transatlantic manners. This edition gives readers a clear path into the work’s style, historical setting, and enduring ideas.

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Bracebridge Hall

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"Under this cloud I walk, gentlemen; pardon my rude assault. I am a traveller, who, having surveyed most of the terrestrial angles of this globe, am hither arrived, to peruse this little spot."

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02THE HUMORISTS
  3. 03WASHINGTON IRVING
  4. 04--CHRISTMAS ORDINARY.
  5. 05BRACEBRIDGE HALL;
  6. 06THE HUMOURISTS.
  7. 07A MEDLEY.
  8. 08BY GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.
  9. 09--CHRISTMAS ORDINARY.
  10. 10THE AUTHOR.
  11. 11WORTHY READER!
  12. 12GEOFFREY CRAYON.
  13. 13THE HALL.
  14. 14THE BUSY MAN.
  15. 15FAMILY SERVANTS.
  16. 16THE WIDOW.
  17. 17--CHAUCER.
  18. 18THE LOVERS.
  19. 19--SONG OF SOLOMON.
  20. 20FAMILY RELIQUES.
  21. 21--DEKKER.
  22. 22"THEODOSIUS TO CAMILLA.
  23. 23THEODOSIUS. 1700."
  24. 24AN OLD SOLDIER
  25. 25THE WIDOW'S RETINUE.
  26. 26READY-MONEY JACK.
  27. 27BACHELORS.
  28. 28WIVES.
  29. 29--SIR P. SIDNEY.
  30. 30STORY TELLING.
  31. 31THE STOUT GENTLEMAN.
  32. 32A STAGE-COACH ROMANCE.
  33. 33FOREST TREES.
  34. 34A LITERARY ANTIQUARY.
  35. 35THE FARM-HOUSE.
  36. 36--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
  37. 37HORSEMANSHIP.
  38. 38--TAYLOR, THE WATER POET.
  39. 39LOVE SYMPTOMS.
  40. 40--MARSTON.
  41. 41FALCONRY.
  42. 42--SPENSER.
  43. 43HAWKING.
  44. 44ST. MARK'S EVE.
  45. 45--DRYDEN.
  46. 46GENTILITY.
  47. 47FORTUNE-TELLING.
  48. 48LOVE-CHARMS.
  49. 49--SIR J. SUCKLING.
  50. 50THE LIBRARY.
  51. 51THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA.
  52. 52(END OF VOL. ONE)
  53. 53BRACEBRIDGE HALL;
  54. 54THE HUMOURISTS.
  55. 55A MEDLEY.
  56. 56BY GEOFFREY CRAYON, Gent.
  57. 57VOLUME SECOND.
  58. 58ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTLEMEN.
  59. 59A BACHELOR'S CONFESSIONS.
  60. 60ENGLISH GRAVITY.
  61. 61GIPSIES.
  62. 62MAY-DAY CUSTOMS.
  63. 63VILLAGE WORTHIES.
  64. 64THE SCHOOLMASTER.
  65. 65THE SCHOOL.
  66. 66--ROGER ASCHAM.
  67. 67A VILLAGE POLITICIAN.
  68. 68THE ROOKERY.
  69. 69--COWPER.
  70. 70MAY-DAY.
  71. 71THE MANUSCRIPT.
  72. 72ANNETTE DELARBRE.
  73. 73TRAVELLING.
  74. 74POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.
  75. 75--BISHOP CORBET.
  76. 76THE CULPRIT.
  77. 77FAMILY MISFORTUNES.
  78. 78LOVERS' TROUBLES.
  79. 79THE HISTORIAN.
  80. 80THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
  81. 81FROM THE MSS. OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.
  82. 82DOLPH HEYLIGER.
  83. 83THE STORM-SHIP.
  84. 84THE WEDDING.
  85. 85--BRAITHWAITE.
  86. 86THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL.

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