About the book: year / Washington Irving, nicknamed the “father of American literature,” was the first outstanding master of mystical storytelling in US history. The book contains the wonderful “Mysterious Stories” of Irving - a collection incredible stories from the life of Europeans who moved to the lands of the New World, as well as two of its best legends - “The Rose of the Alhambra” and “The Moor’s Inheritance”. Irving’s work successfully embodied a combination of fantastic and realistic principles, soft transitions from the magical world to the world of everyday life . Many of his works, decorated with majestic descriptions of nature and unusual characteristics of the heroes, reinterpret already known ancient and medieval plots, introducing novelty and mystery into them.