10 stories.
"IRVING has been called "the Addison of American literature," and the fame secured for the purely literary essays which have been compared to the papers in the " Spectator " and the " Tatler," and the reputation which came later for his great historical biographies, the lives of Columbus, Mahomet and Washington, have thrown somewhat into the shade his skill as a teller of stories. It seems desirable, therefore, to remind the present generation, and especially the younger readers who may think of the works of Washington Irving as belonging to the classics of their grandfathers and as containing nothing of interest for them, that these writings include not a few stirring and dramatic stories, which will be found good reading for young and old.These stories are, like all that Irving wrote, excellent examples of good English style, the narrative being simple, graphic and picturesque and the character studies life-like and consistent to their surroundings." (Publisher's Note)
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