Summary: Elda Rotor of Penguin Classics interviews Betsy Bradley, the introducer and editor of Washington Irving's A HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Irving's popular first book, A HISTORY OF NEW YORK, is an early nineteenth century satirical novel of colonial New Amsterdam. It follows the fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker as he narrates the development of New York cultural life--from the creation of the doughnut to the creation of Wall Street. Alan Walker, head of academic marketing, introduces listeners to THE EMIGRANTS by Gilbert Imlay on "Reading the Classics from A to Z." And Stephen Morrison, associate publisher and editor in chief of Penguin Books, offers up the opening to Washington Irving's beloved story "Rip Van Winkle" in his segment, "First Pages."
