The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781532889738)

"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."

Author: Washington Irving
ISBN-10: 1532889739
ISBN-13: 9781532889738
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2016
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d