By his nephew, PIERRE M. IRVING. 4 Vols., 12 mo. PUTNAM, 1863. The public had a right to expect something from the announcement of The Life and Letters of Washington Irving; nor has it been ...

Washington Irving was born in New-York on the 3d day of April, 1783, ... When the traveler now visits Grenada and is taken to the Alhambra, his guide will say, ...

Washington Irving was by no means such a man ; he was kind-hearted to the last degree; and yet, remembering as we do that sly look of humor which lurked always in the corner of his eye, we cannot ...

Washington Irving tends to be remembered only for his folktales of early America. But while “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” deserve their place in American literature, Irving has ...

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Washington Irving, The Alhambra (1832) in: Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra, p. 849 (Library of America ed. 1991). There are some writers whose works seem to serve perfectly for ...

The year 2019 marked the bicentennial of the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which was serialized between 1819 and 1820.“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was published as part of ...

It was 180 years ago when Washington Irving embarked on a quest to discover the American West in Indian Territory. Washington Irving's 1832 Keystone forest encampment to be re-enacted Skip to main ...

Still later, Hendrik Willem Van Loon often spoke of Washington Irving with a somewhat disgusted annoyance.↩ For almost a century the Sketch Book was used as a first reader for students of the ...