1927. The Nutshell Library. Direct-mail proponent and advertising genius Sherwin Cody, created condensed versions of classic works to be used with his Sherwin Cody's English Classics Course, a correspondence school for literature lessons. This volume contains a short biography of the first American author, Washington Irving and abbreviated forms of his works including: Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Mutability of Literature; and Westminister Abbey. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.