Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim

In this book of Irving's choicest stories of the supernatural, there are ghosts in large numbers, as well as goblins, apparitions, spectres, reincarnations, nec

Among the first tales by an American writer, the title story and "Rip Van Winkle" marked the entry of Washington Irving into world literature. Also includes "Th

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.