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Washington Irving And His Works
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Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783 in Tarrytown, New York. His
father was a merchant and owned an import business. Irving had literary
influences early in his life. He was friends with Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Charles Dickens. Washington Irving had no formal schooling. ....
Middle of essay ....ess Horsemen is that he was a Hessian soldier that had his head shot
off by a cannon ball. The soldier rides around at midnight looking for his head.
"He glided through the night with a head upon his horn." (Washington Irving.
p. 123) The supernatural figure in The Devil and Tom Walker is the Devil.
The Devil lives in the forest in the darkest spot. In the times that this story
was written, people referred to the Devil as the "Black Man." The Devil tried
to get Tom to sifn his book and h.... |
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