"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...

"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving Washington truing was born to a wealthy family in New York on April 3, 1783. He spent almost twenty years of his life in Europe. Influenced by a movement that romanticized the preindustrial Irving won an...

"The Devil and Tom Walker" is a short story by Washington Irving that first appeared in his 1824 collection of stories and sketches Tales of a Traveller. It was part of the "Money-Diggers" portion. The story is about a man who sold his soul to the devil...

In "Tom Walker," local playwright John Strand has written a lively fable about the American subject: money. The play premiered Friday night in a swift 90-minute production at Arena Stage, and it's a laughing skeleton with a bitter heart beating inside. If saying...

This is a review of "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving and the American Romantic Period.

Describes Edmund Burke's concept of evil, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Considers how that concept relates to the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker."

"The Devil and Tom Walker" had an eerie mood created by the many creepy parts of the swampy setting. Irving was successful in portraying the perfect mood for the Devil's abode.