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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1824

Preceded by
  
Bracebridge Hall

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Publication date
  
1824

Author
  
Washington Irving

OCLC
  
22207793

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Country
  
United States/England (concurrently published)

Publisher
  
John Murray (UK) Carey & Lea (USA)

Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

ISBN
  
0-940450-59-3 (reprint)

Followed by
  
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Genres
  
Fiction, Short story, Essay, Romance novel, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Washington Irving books, Short Stories, Classical Studies books

Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1824) is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon.

Contents

Contents

After the introductory "To the Reader", Tales of a Traveller is composed of four "books".

Part I: Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman

  • The Great Unknown
  • The Hunting Dinner
  • The Adventure of My Uncle
  • The Adventure of My Aunt
  • The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather
  • The Adventure of the German Student
  • The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture
  • The Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger
  • The Story of the Young Italian

    • Part II: Buckthorne and His Friends

  • Literary Life
  • A Literary Dinner
  • The Club of Queer Fellows
  • The Poor Devil Author
  • Notoriety
  • A Practical Philosopher
  • Buckthorne, or the Young Man of Great Expectations
  • Grave Reflections of a Disappointed Man
  • The Booby Squire
  • The Strolling Manager

    • Part III: The Italian Banditti

  • The Inn at Terracina
  • The Adventure of the Little Antiquary
  • The Belated Travellers
  • The Adventure of the Popkins Family
  • The Painter's Adventure
  • The Story of the Bandit Chieftain
  • The Story of the Young Robber
  • The Adventure of the Englishman

    • Part IV: The Money Diggers

  • Hell Gate
  • Kidd the Pirate
  • The Devil and Tom Walker
  • Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
  • The Adventure of the Black Fisherman

    • References

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