Old Christmas From the Sketch (Illustrated) Book by Washington Irving (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Washington Irving's "Old Christmas" 1875 is the story of an old fashioned Christmas celebration in an old English manor house that revived Christmas customs of long ago. Irving, who had a great influence on Charles Dickens completed this work 20 years prior to Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". "There was a quaintness, too, mingled with all this revelry, that gave it a peculiar zest; it was suited to the time and place; and as the old Manor House almost reeled with mirth and wassail, it seemed echoing back the joviality of long-departed years."Beautifully illustrated by RANDOLPH CALDECOTT with art work from the original publication.