The complete online text of Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving.

"I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle & frenchhorn," Washington Irving said in an 1819 letter. While his flute music for a time was a dominant strain, it still remains discernible in t...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with The Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with the Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

THIS BIOGRAPHY of George Washington is not the best. Still less is it the most historically significant (that honor probably belongs to Parson Weems's). It was never even finished. But part of it was published, anonymously, in 1789; it had the sanction of...

General George Washington: A Military Life. By Edward G. Lengel. (New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xlii, 450. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8129-6950-4; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4000-6081-8; e-book, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-58836-480-7.) Bookshelves are already weighed down with biographies of George Washington, and some people...