Author:Washington Irving

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Washington Irving (1783–1859)

Born in Manhattan. An author, lawyer and diplomat The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Washington Irving

Works

• Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (1836)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837)
• Astoria (a.k.a. Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains) (1836)
• Bracebridge Hall (1819)
• Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829)
• The Crayon Papers (1825)
• The Devil and Tom Walker (1824)
• Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828)
• Mahomet and his Successors[1]
• Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography (a.k.a. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith) (1840)
• The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820), including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• Tales of a Traveler (1824)
• A Tour on the Prairies
• Voyages of the Companions of Columbus (1831)
• The Perverse Widow and The Widow (1909), reprint with Steele's The Perverse Widow
• Tales of the Alhambra (publ. 1832, revised 1851)
  • Legend Of The Arabian Astrologer

Works about the author

• Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon, by William Hazlitt. Essay in The Spirit of the Age.
• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• “Irving, Washington” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Irving, Washington” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

On his works

• “Knickerbocker History of New York, The” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.