The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an short story by American author Washington Irving. First published in a book of short stories and essays entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, it is one of the first enduring works of American fiction. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” first appeared in Washington Irving’s collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published in The text and illustrations used in this ebook are from the revised edition of the Sketch Book, published in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was one of the earliest American tales to gain enduring popularity. It follows a tradition of folk tales involving supernatural wild chases, a tradition which includes such well-known classics as Robert Burns' Tam o' Shanter. Irving's tale is a Reviews: K.
When Washington Irving was a teenager, there were occasional outbreaks of yellow fever in his hometown of Manhattan. As a result, his parents sent him up to spend the summers in Tarrytown, where he discovered Sleepy Hollow, its ghost stories and Dutch settlements. Contagion and witchly hauntings were intertwined in Irving's mind. Washington Irving's famous opening to this story, which first appeared in The Sketch Book in , evokes the dreamlike, almost mystical quality of the Hudson River Valley. It also takes the reader to Sleepy Hollow, where almost anything might have happened in —the approximate date of the story, now become legend, of Ichabod Crane and. 42 by Washington Irving; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Download This eBook. Format Url Size; Read this book online: HTML: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Ghosts -- Fiction.
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