Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
On page 357, "On the verge of great beetling bastion" was changed to"On the verge of the great beetling bastion".
On page 377, "on which occasion he have" was changed to "on which occasion he gave".
On page 388, "the talisman that hangs around my neck" was changed to the talisman that hangs around thy neck".
THE ALHAMBRA
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Washington Irving's rooms, overlooking the Garden of Lindaraxa.
THE ALHAMBRA
BY · WASHINGTON · IRVING
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL
ILLUSTRATED WITH DRAWINGS
OF THE PLACES MENTIONED
BY JOSEPH PENNELL
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
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First Edition (Cranford Series), 1896. Reprinted, 1906, 1911.
Pocket Classics, 1908.
INTRODUCTION
It is not possible to forget Washington Irving in theAlhambra. With a single volume, the simple, gentle, kindlyAmerican man of letters became no less a figure in the Moor'sRed Palace than Boabdil and Lindaraxa of whom he wrote.And yet, never perhaps did a book make so unconscious a bidfor popularity. Irving visited Granada in 1828. He returnedthe following year, when the Governor's apartments in theAlhambra were lent to him as lodgings. There he spentseveral weeks, his love for the place growing with every dayand hour. It was this affection, and no more complexmotive, that prompted him to describe its courts and gardensand to record its legends. The work was the amusement ofhis leisure moments, filling the interval between the completionof one serious, and now all but unknown, history