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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

—The Creole Village

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Washington Irving

1783–1859, American author and diplomat, b. New York City. Irving was one of the first Americans to be recognized abroad as a man of letters, and he was a literary idol at home.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.)

Pronunciation:

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WORKS: Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. X, Part 2.; Rip Van Winkle
From Matthews’s The Short-Story.; John Bull
From Matthews’s The Oxford Book of American Essays.; The Mutability of Literature
From Matthews’s The Oxford Book of American Essays.; Bartlett’s Irving Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.; Irving, Washington, 30251 to 30261
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
WRITINGS ABOUT IRVING: “Irving”
Chapter by Major George Haven Putnam with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature.

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