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The Biography: Originally published as a massive five-volume masterwork between 1855 and 1859, this is Washington Irving's final and most ambitious literary achievement. Irving—who was actually named after George Washington—spent decades researching the project to provide an intimate, deeply humanized portrait of the general and president, contextualized within the broader sweeping narrative of the American Revolution.The Anthology Set: This specific volume is Part II, Volume 13 of a multi-volume subscription anthology set titled A Library of Universal Literature. Around 1900 and 1901, the New York publisher P.F. Collier & Son divided world knowledge into multi-part thematic sections—covering Science, Biography, Fiction, and Orations. This biography volume anchored their historical and biographical section.