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A review by digitalmozart
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman by Washington Irving, Geoffrey Crayon
3.0
Origally I was going to give this book 2 stars. The only two stories in this collection of any merit are the most famous ones, those being "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". The rest are a drab collection of essays and stories that fall into the following categories
-Daydreams that "Geoffrey" experiences (Talking books, authors coming out of paintings)
-C H R I S T M A S
-15 pages about a singular building, person, or person in a building
However. A sentence in the final part of the book, titled l'Envoy, caught me off guard, and I really respected it.
"[The author] ventures to serve up this second volume in the same heterogeneous way with his first; simply requesting the reader, if he should find here and there something to please him, to rest assured that it was written expressly for intelligent readers like himself; but entreating him, should he find anything to dislike, to tolerate it, as one of those articles which the author has been obliged to write for readers of a less refined taste."
-Daydreams that "Geoffrey" experiences (Talking books, authors coming out of paintings)
-C H R I S T M A S
-15 pages about a singular building, person, or person in a building
However. A sentence in the final part of the book, titled l'Envoy, caught me off guard, and I really respected it.
"[The author] ventures to serve up this second volume in the same heterogeneous way with his first; simply requesting the reader, if he should find here and there something to please him, to rest assured that it was written expressly for intelligent readers like himself; but entreating him, should he find anything to dislike, to tolerate it, as one of those articles which the author has been obliged to write for readers of a less refined taste."