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Tales of a Traveller

1824 book by Washington Irving

Field	Value
author	Washington Irving
caption	Volume 1 of the first US edition.
congress	PS2052 1991
country	United States/England
(concurrently published)
dewey	813/.2 20
followed_by	A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
genre	Essays & Short stories
image	traveller1.jpg
isbn	0-940450-59-3
isbn_note	(reprint)
language	English
media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
name	Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
oclc	22207793
preceded_by	Bracebridge Hall
publisher	John Murray (London)
H.C. Cary & I. Lee (Philadelphia)
release_date	[1824](1824-in-literature)

(concurrently published) H.C. Cary & I. Lee (Philadelphia)

Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. is an 1824 two-volume, four-part (plus an introduction) collection of essays and short stories authored by Washington Irving. He compiled the collection while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris and published it under his pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Notable stories included are "The Adventure of the German Student", "Kidd the Pirate", and "The Devil and Tom Walker".

Reception

Irving thought highly of Tales of a Traveller, saying: "I think there are in it some of the best things I have ever written". He was therefore disappointed by the book's generally poor critical reception.{{r|n=Cairns|r={{cite book | author-link = John Neal | editor-first = Fred Lewis | editor-last = Pattee | editor-link = Fred Lewis Pattee

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