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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, it is rich with Dutch culture, regional history, and ghost stories. In schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his adversary the Headless Horseman, Irving created two of the most unforgettable characters in American literature. This short work is part of Applewood's American Roots series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers and thinkers.

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is one of the first examples of American fiction writing and has since become a celebrated folk tale. Sleepy Hollow is known for being home to ghosts and spirits, the most famous of which is the terrifying Headless Horseman, a spectre searching for the head he lost to a stray cannonball during the American Revolutionary War. Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster, is more concerned with earning the hand of Katrina Van Tassel than worrying about ghosts, but the night that he expects to earn Katrina’s affections holds something quite different in store for him.

THE PERFECT HALLOWEEN GIFT!!!! Hidden in plain sight! A computer password organizer disguised as a classic work of literature. Keep all of your internet passwords in one place, cleverly disguised so prying eyes will never find them. Works perfectly when placed on a bookshelf among other books. Continues to work even if you just leave it out on your desk. Prying eyes will never discover your secret stash of passwords. This book contains the entire text of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the classic book by Washington Irving. The story was written in 1820, and it remains an enjoyable classic to read today. The book’s cover was adapted from a chromolithograph (1856) of the painting "Ichabod Crane" by William J. Wilgus (1819–1853). In the middle of the book you will also find 100 pages specifically designed to help you keep all of your internet passwords organized, safe, and secure. • Each page of the password journal contains lined spaces for the name of the website, your username, your password, and several lines of notes. • Letter tabs printed on the interior of the book help you organize your website information alphabetically. • Lettered sections that you are more likely to use are given more pages. (For example, the “S” section is given 8 pages while “X” is only given 2 pages.) • There is room for 300 different website entries, so you never have to lose an internet password again! See a preview of the book’s password organizer pages here: http://www.elysianpress.com/code-keepers/

Designed specifically for students of literature and bibliophiles. We are pleased to bring you the complete and unabridged text of this classic book. Because this is the original work by the author, you may find slight differences in spellings and punctuation than those you’re used to seeing in more contemporary books. However, we felt it important to keep the text as it was originally written. Our hope is that you will take full advantage of this special edition. These books were designed specifically for students. So feel free to let your highlighter flow over our nice, white pages to mark the passages you find interesting or remarkable. Go ahead and fill our generous margins with your thoughts and insights. Years later, when you pluck this book off the shelf to read it again, not only will you revisit this world, but you’ll be reintroduced to your younger self. And for those of you who despise sticky notes or dog-eared pages in your books, we’ve added a special place for you to record your own notes along with their corresponding page numbers in your very own Personalized Index on the last two pages of this book. We also think you’ll love the way these books will look on your bookshelves. We’ve done all of this because we’d love for you to build your own literary legacy library by collecting more great works published by Comfortable Classics Yours truly, The Comfortable Classics Team

The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. The most infamous spectre in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head."