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Title: Washington Irving

Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Release Date: June 4, 2005 [EBook #15984]

Language: English

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American Men of Letters.

WASHINGTON IRVING.

BY

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

FIFTH THOUSAND.

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
11 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1884.

Copyright, 1881,
BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

_All rights reserved_.

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge:_
Electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE
PRELIMINARY 1

CHAPTER II.
BOYHOOD 21

CHAPTER III.
MANHOOD: FIRST VISIT TO EUROPE 31

CHAPTER IV.
SOCIETY AND "SALMAGUNDI" 43

CHAPTER V.
THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD 58

CHAPTER VI.
LIFE IN EUROPE: LITERARY ACTIVITY 94

CHAPTER VII.
IN SPAIN 141

CHAPTER VIII.
RETURN TO AMERICA: SUNNYSIDE: THE MISSI