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There is truth in the saying that onlookers see more of the game than the players, and in the same way it may be said that in this series of sketches of rural England, with descriptions of rustic customs, and above all of the hearty keeping of Christmas in an old country house, the eyes of a sympathetic American, born in colonial days, have seen things worth recording that might have been overlooked by an Englishman as too familiar to mention. Washington Irving was born in New York city on April 3, 1783. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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First published in 1822, this book tells of a young American travelling in Europe in the years after the Battle of Waterloo. Happening to meet his friend Frank Bracebridge at a coaching inn, he is invited to spend Christmas at his father's house, and later returns to Bracebridge Hall to attend the wedding of one of Frank's brothers. Given Squire Bracebridge's love of keeping up the old traditions (he thinks that travelling in coaches rather than on horseback has led to the English becoming effete shadows of their ancestors, and laments the changes wrought by the industrial revolution), he finds that the family and the inhabitants of the nearby villagers live in the style of earlier centuries as much as possible. An enjoyable Christmas read. ( )