워싱톤 어빙의 스케치북.The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., by Washington Irving
립반윙클 크리스마스등 여러 이야기를 모아서 스케치북으로 만든 위싱톤 어빙의 책.
PREFACE TO THE REVISED
EDITION.
THE following papers, with two exceptions, were written in England, and
formed but part of an intended series for which I had made notes and
memorandums. Before I could mature a plan, however, circumstances compelled
me to send them piecemeal to the United States, where they were published from
time to time in portions or numbers. It was not my intention to publish them in
England, being conscious that much of their contents could be interesting only
to American readers, and, in truth, being deterred by the severity with which
American productions had been treated by the British press.