Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
Paperback
(WLC June 15, 2009)
, Reprint Edition
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly 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."
- ISBN
- 080950250X / 9780809502509
- Pages
- 86
- Weight
- 4.3 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 0.22
in.