The complete online text of Washington Irving by Charles Dudley Warner.

In the Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern (1902), Charles Dudley Warner is described as "an American man of letters and novelist." Something of his personality and literary judgment may also be revealed in the descriptions o...

In a newly discovered letter, Washington Irving (1783-1859) wrote George Henry, declining a dinner invitation and praising the correspondent's newly acquired permission to paint a set of views of Windsor Castle. The letter, which is in the University of Virginia Library and is...

Writer Washington Irving sought to maintain Christmas traditions practiced in Victorian England in a fictional account of a Christmas celebration published in 1819. Irving's description was set in a country squire's home in which an observer had been invited to join holiday games and...

The FBI is investigating accusations of police brutality and misconduct in the historic village of Sleepy Hollow after officers used stun guns on a 16-year-old boy and another man on separate occasions, the mayor said Wednesday.The FBI notified the village about a month ago that...

Twin baby grand pianos stand in the living room of a white clapboard farmhouse high on the Taconic Ridge on the border of New York and Massachusetts. Here the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay composed and played...