Washington Irving & August Nemo 
7 best short stories by Washington Irving 

He was the greatest American writer of his time: mentor to Poe, Dickens, and Hawthorne, his country’s first professional author, and a writer of uniqely American ghost stories about growth, change, and identity. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:

— The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
— Rip Van Winkle
— The Devil and Tom Walker
— Christmas
— Guest from Gibbet Island
— The Legend of the Engulphed Convent
— The Adventure of my Uncle

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Washington Irving was born in New York in 1783, he is known for his biographical works and such stories as ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.’