About the Author

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.

Andrew B. Myers (1920–1998), volume editor, was a leading Irving scholar, and a longtime professor of English at Fordham University.

Reviews

“He’s extremely funny and entertaining, the sort of writer who can never get to his point without first navigating the side streets, poking in alleys, browsing at store windows and chatting with passersby, until at last you don’t care about his point anymore, having enjoyed the saunter. And just then the point arrives and you burst out laughing.” — Voice Literary Supplement