The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781940177625)

Beginning with the chilling preface, "Found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker." Washington Irving's classic short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 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: 1940177626
ISBN-13: 9781940177625
Publisher: Infinity
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 42
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d