[Irving, Washington; Franklin] [Stories and Literary Excerpts. Part 1]. Povesti i Literaturnye Otryvki. Chast' pervaia.

Moskva, Universitetskaia tipografiia, 1829. 
12mo, [6], V, [3], 336 pp.

In contemporary boards.
Rebacked, repair to edges, modern ribbon and endpapers, dampstaining to some pages, bookstore's stamp to title.

This collected edition of stories includes Russian translations of Washington Irving’s novella 'The Haunted House' from his book 'Bracebridge Hall' [Libman, #2709], and an essay titled 'Journey to Ermenonville' attributed to Benjamin Franklin. However, the latter is most likely a mystification — a pseudonymous work falsely attributed to Franklin. It is possible that a Russian author used Franklin’s name to lend the piece greater authority or intrigue.
This conclusion is supported by the content of the essay, which describes a visit to the tomb of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While it is historically accurate that Franklin served as the United States Minister to France from 1776 to 1785 and could have visited Rousseau’s tomb (Rousseau died in 1778), the text reveals that the travelers were informed during their visit that Rousseau’s body was no longer there. In fact, Rousseau’s remains were transferred to the Panthéon on October 11, 1794 — four years after Franklin’s death in 1790. This chronological inconsistency strongly suggests that the essay could not have been written by Franklin himself.
'Povesti i Literaturnye Otryvki' was published by Nikolai Polevoi, a renowned Russian editor, writer, translator, and historian, in six parts. Each of the first four parts includes a novella by Washington Irving.

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