![]() ![]() Irving was largely responsible, along with the French writers of the same period, for the Romantic image of Al-Andalus which persists to this day. It weaves a series of short stories around the folk with whom he shared his life there. His best known work " Tales of the Alhambra" which was first published in London in 1832 under the title " The Alhambra a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and the Spaniards". He wrote " Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada" (1829). When he took up residence in the Alhambra palace when it was in an abandoned state. In 1829 he journeyed from Seville to Granada where he immediately asked the then-governor of the historic Alhambra Palace as well as the archbishop of Granada for access, which was granted because of his celebrity status. When it collapsed he turned to writing with success of "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" He travelled to Paris in 1821 and thence to Madrid in 1826 as historical document about the Americas had been released. Washington Irving was the son of a New York merchant, he was trained in law but gave it up for the family business. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace in Granada while writing some of the material for his book. ![]() Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. ![]()
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