The Alhambra

Complete and unabridged, with 33 full-page plates by Santiago Rusiñol i Prats, Joaquín Sorolla and Genaro Pérez Villaamil. Irving lived for three months in the abandoned Alhambra in 1829, in rooms the caretaker's family kept for him, and wrote down the legends the people of the hill told about the place. The book made Granada a destination and did much to bring about the palace's restoration. This...