This collection of stories is made up of Ten original and imaginative tales by Washington Irving including his masterpiece, "RIP VAN WINKLE" as well as, "A Posthumous Writing Of Diedrich Knickerbocker", "A Legend Of Communipaw", "Guests From Gibbet Island", "Christmas", "Communipaw", "Conspiracy Of The Cocked Hats", "Desultory Thoughts On Criticism", "Little Britain", "National Nomenclature" & "Recollections Of The Alhambra".