He was the greatest American writer of his time: mentor to Poe, Longfellow, and Hawthorne, his country's first professional author, transformed copyright laws to give writers and artists more representation, and cultivated a previously non-existent literary culture throughout...
Christmas Day is from the book by Washington Irving the'Old Christmas' collection.
Excerpt from Christmas Day I rose softly, slip ed on my clothes, opened the door sudden y, and beheld one of the most beautiful little fairy groups that a painter could imagine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...
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