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Knickerbocker's History of New York,
by Washington Irving
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Title: Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
Author: Washington Irving
Release Date: July 29, 2004 [EBook #13042]
Language: English
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KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK
COMPLETE
BY
WASHINGTON IRVING
CHICAGO
W.B. CONKEY COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
INTRODUCTION.
KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK is the book, published in December, 1809, with which Washington living, at the age of twenty-six, first won wide credit and influence. Walter Scott wrote to an American friend, who sent him the second edition----
"I beg you to accept my best thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose History of New York. I am sensible that, as a stranger to American parties and politics, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece, but I must own that,
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by Washington Irving