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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
The timeless collection that introduced Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horseman Perhaps the marker of a true mythos is when the stories themselves overshadow their creator. Originally published under a pseudonym as The Sketch Book of Geoffrey...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle, with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, also known as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales (Wo...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: The Original 1820 ...
Washington Irving's classic, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," has been making spines tingle since 1820 Irving tapped into a timeless fear: the prospect of a late night journey shrouded in fog turning suddenly fatal. Our imaginations conjure every conceivable danger, but in...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
The quintessential American writer, Washington Irving emerged as the country's first popular author with such beloved nineteenth-century short stories as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." These highly entertaining fiction masterpieces reveal Irving's unique...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Of the spirits that haunt the Tarry Town (New York) countryside, beware most of all, the Headless Horseman. Join Ichabod Crane as he seeks to make a home for himself in the small port town. The bumbling schoolmaster chases love, and receives an experience like no other on a fateful...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving is an eerie tale set deep in the forest. This is a classic story and one which has inspired a recent motion picture and also one which has been enthralling people for generations.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
There is magic and mystery surrounding the vale of Sleepy Hollow. It is home to a host of ghostly sounds and goblin spectres, none more infamous than the Headless Horseman. This figure rides out in the witching hour of night. If one is not careful, a traveller can lose...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales
The Headless Horseman faces off with Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a ghost story of enduring popularity that takes place at the time of the American Revolution. Rip Van Winkle, another traditional favorite from the same historic period, tells the tale of man who...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
One of the most popular pieces of American fiction is Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, originally published in 1820 in Irving's short story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Set in New York's Hudson River valley after the American Revolution,...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irvin...
Headless horsemen were staples of Northern European storytelling, featuring in German, Irish (e.g. Dullahan), Scandinavian (e.g. the Wild Hunt) and English legends and were included in Robert Burns's "Tam o' Shanter" (1790), and B rger's Der wilde J ger, translated...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham,...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irvings haunting, macabre stories will give wide-eyed young readers delightful chills. This spooky anthology of timeless tales includes "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the eerie "Rip Van Winkle," the funny "The Specter Bridegroom," and "The Devil and Tom Walker." Its...
The Historically Annotated Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
One of America's greatest gothic tales, this Halloween classic takes place in a small New York town on the edge of the forest where whispers of a horrifying ghost are slipping from one person to the next. Schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, is new to the small town...
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