Table of Contents

Title Page

Washington Irving

Oscar Wilde

Bram Stoker

H.G. Wells

Arthur Conan Doyle

E.T.A. Hoffman

Rudyard Kipling

Franz Kafka

H.P. Lovecraft

Edgar Allan Poe

Guy de Maupassant

Virginia Woolf

Mark Twain

Jack London

Henry James

Elizabeth Gaskell

Charlotte Perkins

Herman Melville

Katherine Mansfield

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert E. Howard

G. K. Chesterton

Edgar Wallace

Arthur Manchen

Ambrose Bierce

Talbot Mundy

Abraham Merritt

Zane Grey

Edgar Rice Burroughs

James Joyce

Leo Tolstoy

Nikolai Gogol

Anton Chekhov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Maxim Gorky

Leonid Andreyev

Ivan Turgenev

Joseph Conrad

Aleksander Pushkin

Charles Dickens

Hans Christian Andersen

Louisa May Alcott

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Laura E. Richards

Kate Chopin

Susan Glaspell

Stephen Crane

Edith Wharton

F. Scott Fitzgerald

About the Publisher

AMERICAN AUTHOR, ESSAYIST, biographer, historian, and diplomat, Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783. He is best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollowand Rip Van Winkle, both published in his book, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, as seven paper-bound installments between June 23, 1819 and September 13, 1820.

Irving made his literary debut in 1802, publishing a collection of observational letters under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. He moved to England in 1815 and gained international acclaim with the success of The Sketchbook fo Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Irving was among the first American writers to earn fame in Europe, along with James Fenimore Cooper. Authors Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville were among the distinguished authors who benefited from Irving's encouragement.

Irving died of a heart attack in 1859, eight months after completing his significant biographical series on George Washington. Appropriately enough, Irving was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.