Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

Table of ContentsTitle Page Washington Irving Oscar Wilde Bram Stoker H.G. Wells Arthur Conan Doyle E.T.A. Hoffman Rudyard Kipling Franz Kafka H.P. Lovecraft Edgar Allan Poe Guy de Maupassant Virginia Woolf Mark Twain Jack London Henry James Elizabeth Gaskell Charlotte Perkins Herman Melville Katherine Mansfield Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert Louis Stevenson Robert E. Howard G. K. Chesterton Edgar Wallace Arthur Manchen Ambrose Bierce Talbot Mundy Abraham Merritt Zane Grey Edgar Rice Burroughs James Joyce Leo Tolstoy Nikolai Gogol Anton Chekhov Fyodor Dostoevsky Maxim Gorky Leonid Andreyev Ivan Turgenev Joseph Conrad Aleksander Pushkin Charles Dickens Hans Christian Andersen Louisa May Alcott Alice Dunbar-Nelson Laura E. Richards Kate Chopin Susan Glaspell Stephen Crane Edith Wharton F. Scott Fitzgerald About the Publisher Washington Irving AMERICAN AUTHOR, ESSAYIST, biographer, historian, and diplomat, Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783. He is best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollowand Rip Van Winkle, both published in his book, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, as seven paper-bound installments between June 23, 1819 and September 13, 1820. Irving made his literary debut in 1802, publishing a collection of observational letters under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. He moved to England in 1815 and gained international acclaim with the success of The Sketchbook fo Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving was among the first American writers to earn fame in Europe, along with James Fenimore Cooper. Authors Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville were among the distinguished authors who benefited from Irving's encouragement. Irving died of a heart attack in 1859, eight months after completing his significant biographical series on George Washington. Appropriately enough, Irving was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.