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