A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the legend of Sleepy Hollow is actually true?
This new edition, with an introduction from Elizabeth L. Bradley, demonstrates how inextricably Irving's writings are woven into the fabric of American culture - high and low.
Washington Irving's classic tale about the superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, who has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
This is the story of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster who arrives in Sleepy Hollow.
A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Washington Irving
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After moving to the small village of Sleepy Hollow, superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane hears the tall tale of The Headless Horseman, a ghost haunting the nearby woods. But is this just a story?