The article is referred about the life and work of the famous American writer, founder of national literature, master of sensitive style Washington Irving. While the author analyzes Irving’s work on the basis of English sources, the future of the short story-novella genre, which plays an important role as a novel, is associated with the name of Washington Irving. She tries to open the real and comic plot of the writer’s early novels (Sketchbook). In fact, the truth can only be achieved through hard work. That fact is the most precious thing in the life of Irving. At the same time, the article also seeks to describe the role of the eastern legends in the works of Irving (Al-Hamro).

Keywords: novella, novel, romance, realist, naturalist, almanac, parody, cartoon, indiаns, federalists,

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