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He was, in Thackeray's words, the "first ambassador whom the New World of letters sent to the Old." Sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these masterpieces in miniature: tales of romance, travel pictures, biographical discourses, and literary musings. Introducing such classic figures of American fiction and fantasy as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, these stories have proved has enduring as the Kaatskill Mountains their author immortalized.
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