The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle - Softcover

Irving, Washington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080950250X ISBN 13: 9780809502509

Verlag: WLC, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

"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."

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Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, historian and diplomat. Although settling in New York, Irving studied in Europe where he developed his literary interests and later became one of the first American writers to earn influential and critical acclaim in Europe. He's best known for his pioneering work in the Gothic genre and is the writer of famous stories including Rip Van Winkle,1819, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080950250X
• ISBN 13: 9780809502509
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 86
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