Sinister early American satire from Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. The classic short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” is the dark and eerie tale of a foolish man’s greed, hypocrisy and ambition . Puritan writing at its finest. Tom is a debased man, miserly and cruel to his fellows, and even to his wife. The Devil, shows him a grove of rotting trees, representing souls. They make the customary deal, with Walker becoming one of the richest men around and Walker begins to work at keeping his soul, despite a lifetime of usury and the dark deal to which he agreed. If you're a fan of works like "The Scarlet Letter," this is just right for you. A definitely religious message, but with enough horror and fantasy to draw in even an atheist reader.
25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 1 : The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Call of Cthulhu and other
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50 Ghost and Horror masterpieces you have to listen before you die, Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)
Honoré de Balzac, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, H.P Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Bram Stoker, H.G Wells
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Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch) : Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories
Washington Irving
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World's Greatest Sci-Fi Stories
Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Mateo Falcone, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Jack London, E.M. Forster
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10 Classics Western Stories
Andy Adams, Frederic Balch, B. M. Bower, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Samuel Merwin, Marah Ellis Ryan, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow : A Timeless Tale of the Headless Horseman and Haunted Americana
Washington Irving, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co
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Die größten Klassiker der Regency-Ära : 50 Titel in einem Band: Verstand und Gefühl, Waverley, Don Juan, Faust, Das Fräulein von Scuderi, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts,
Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Karoline von Günderrode, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Washington Irving, Joseph von Eichendorff, E. T. A. A Hoffmann, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, Johanna Schopenhauer, Marianne Ehrmann, Sophie Albrecht, Caroline von Wolzogen, Harriette Wilson, Benedikte Naubert, Sophie La Roche, Germaine de Staël, Christian August Vulpius, Johann David Wyse
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Tales of the Dark Romantics & Beyond : A collection of mysterious and chilling works by
Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, William Cullen Bryant, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Bronte, Lord Alfred, James Whitcomb Riley
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The Art of Book-Making
Washington Irving
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The Adventure of the Mason
Washington Irving
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The Spectre Bridegroom
Washington Irving
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