The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", or "The Legend of the Headless Horseman", is a short Gothic horror story written by Washington Irving in 1820. It is part of his collection of essays and short stories The...
IRVING, Washington
Tales of the Alhambra
Washington Irving could be described as the prototype of a romantic historian: cosmopolitan and tireless traveler, embodies the restless and multifaceted personality of nineteenth-century man. American...
Rip van Winkle
The story follows Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American villager who lives in a town near the Catskill Mountains in New York. One day, seeking to escape from his wife, he ventures into the mountains, where he...
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gen.
With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic,...