Альгамбра Дом с приведениями

“There are two categories of people for whom life is a continuous holiday: the very rich and the very poor - one simply has nothing to do, and the other has nothing to do.”

This edition includes a book of short stories, The Alhambra, as well as his best short stories - Rip Van Winkle, The Ghost Groom, The Haunted House, and more. Irving's short stories are full of romanticism, and the characters - always contemporaries of the author and their characters are quite realistic. About all this and not only in the Alhambra book. Novels (Washington Irving)

An amazingly poetic, captivating book, filled with aromas of oriental spices and the charm of fairy tales in the style of "Thousand and One Nights" equally with the unpretentious charm of Spanish peasant tales about the enchanted treasures of the Moors. The colorful style, embroidered with radiant metaphors, caresses and pacifies the soul, and in particular conquers the kind, charmingly romantic mood of the author in relation to the seemingly most simple and unsightly details. Irving sees beauty in everything, in every little thing of the environment he feels the spirit of antiquity, the ghostly cover of the great past of the times of Moorish rule, and his mood from the very first lines begins to be transmitted to the reader. The very name - Alhambra, or Alhambra - listen how sweet, musical and mysterious it sounds to the European ear! And in the book, the legendary palace turns into a mystical place shrouded in a magical haze, timeless, like the castle of the Sleeping Beauty, reliably keeping its secrets for an open-hearted guest who is able to embrace this unearthly beauty.