Best known for such classic tales as "Rip Van Wrinkle" and "The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow,"Washington Irving, (1783-1859) was
America's first internationally recognized man of letters.
James W. Tuttleton(1902-1996), volume editor, was chairman of the
Department of English at New York University and a co-editor ofThe
Gotham Library. His books on American literature includeThe Novel
of Manners in AmericaandThomas Wentworth Higginson.
“The Library of America has published a volume of Washington Irving, and though I never intended to read it, I did glance through, and discovered the story of Rip Van Winkle. Rip sits down for a drink, and lo, next thing he knows, 20 years have passed. Just so with a reviewer who sits down for a glance at Washington Irving. One glance leads to several. Chapters slip past, then whole books (four of them appear in this volume), and finally the reviewer limps back to town, beard grown, hair wild, mumbling a crazily antiquated piece of news: Washington Irving is wonderful.” — Voice Literary Supplement
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