Author:Washington Irving
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American author, lawyer and diplomat
one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.The following list of Irving's principal works is derived from Washington Irving: Bibliography (1989), by Edwin T. Boden. Some of the earlier works appeared in 'parts'. The dates given are the earliest publication in book form.
one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.The following list of Irving's principal works is derived from Washington Irving: Bibliography (1989), by Edwin T. Boden. Some of the earlier works appeared in 'parts'. The dates given are the earliest publication in book form.
Washington Irving
Works
- Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1802)
- Salmagundi (1807–1808)
- Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
- The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell (1810)
- The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820) [1824–26, in 2 vols.]
- Rip Van Winkle
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Little Britain
- Old Christmas
- Bracebridge Hall (1819)
- Charles II (1824)
- Tales of a Traveler (1824), in 4 vols.
- The Freyschütz (1824) by Carl Maria von Weber, translated with Barham Livius (external scan)
- The Beauties of Washington Irving (1825) should this be included??
- Richelieu (1826)
- A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828), in 4 vols. (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Abridged) (1829)
- Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829), in 2 vols.
- Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus (1831)
- Tales of the Alhambra (1832, revised 1851)
- The Crayon Miscellany
- A Tour on the Prairies (1835)
- Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (1835)
- Legends of the Conquest of Spain (1835)
- Astoria (a.k.a. Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains) (1836), in 3 vols.
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837), in 3 vols.
- Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson (1841)
- A Book of the Hudson (1849)
- Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography (a.k.a. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith) (1849)
- Mahomet and His Successors (1850), in 2 vols
- Wolfert's Roost, and other Sketches (1855)
- The Life of George Washington (1855–1859), in 5 vols.
Individual pieces
- Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman (1824)
- "The Adventure of My Aunt"
- "The Adventure of My Uncle"
- "The Adventure of the German Student"
- "The Bold Dragoon"
- "The Great Unknown"
- "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture"
- The Devil and Tom Walker (1824)
- The Crayon Papers (1825)
- Legend of the Arabian Astrologer
- The Perverse Widow and The Widow (1909), reprint with Steele's The Perverse Widow
- "Wolfert Webbers, or Golden Dreams", in The Lock and Key Library, Volume 9, edited by Julian Hawthorne
- "Adventure of the Black Fisherman", in The Lock and Key Library, Volume 9, edited by Julian Hawthorne
Essays
- "Conversations with Talma" (1855) in The Knickerbocker Gallery
Compilations
- The Complete Works of Washington Irving, published by Crowell, 1848
- The Works of Washington Irving: The Kinderhook Edition, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893
Works about Irving
- "Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon," in The Spirit of the Age (pp. 409−424), by William Hazlitt, London: Henry Colburn (1825)
- A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
- "A Day with Washington Irving" by Charles Lanman, in Once a Week, Series 1, Volume 2, Issue 27, December 31, 1859
- "Washington Irving: In Memoriam" by C. W. L. in The Knickerbocker, vol. 63, no. 6, June 1864.
- "Washington Irving" in The Maclise Portrait-Gallery, by William Bates (1883)
- "Irving, Washington," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "Irving, Washington," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Irving, Washington," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Irving, Washington," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
On his works
- "Knickerbocker History of New York, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Ichabod Crane," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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