Henry Walcott Boynton traces Irving’s life from his New York boyhood and years as a young man about town to his career as a man of letters, from Knickerbocker and the Sketch Book through his long years in England and Spain to his old age at Sunnyside, with judgements on how his work has lasted.
A compact, well-written biography for readers of Rip Van Winkle and early American literature. Download the free EPUB.