The complete online text of Little Britain 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...

British television productions garnered a leading eight International Emmy nominations, including two for the BBC1 drama "The Street."Brazil finished a close second with a record seven nominations for the South American country. Five of those went to TV Globo productions, including "Elis Regina Special: All...

Former Vice President Al Gore called on television executives, producers and performers to help warn viewers about global warming as he accepted a special honor Monday at the 35th International Emmy Awards.British TV productions dominated the ceremony, winning seven of the nine categories, with BBC...

Despite his illustriously shaggy hair and dirty mouth, sexagenarian Scottish comedian Billy Connolly isn’t (yet) a humor icon in America. Maybe that will change for New Yorkers: He and his wife Pamela, a comedienne turned psychotherapist, have bought an apartment in the Flatiron district. According...