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Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories

Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories

by Washington Irving
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/02/2009

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Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange folk, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village to find that not only is his wife dead but war and revolution have changed many things. He, on the other hand, although older is not appreciably wiser and soon slips back into his idle habits. 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' tells of conscientious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. Orderly and strict in school, out of school his life is disorderly and his head full of fearful fantasies. He is in love with the beautiful Katrina but has a rival for her hand, a dashing young hero who, together with his prankster friends, plays on Ichabod's superstitions, notably with the story of a headless horseman who haunts the region. Tragedy strikes when their hapless victim encounters just such an apparition when returning home one dark and especially dismal night . . . Three equally compelling stories, 'The Spectre Bridegroom', 'The Pride of the Village' and 'Mountjoy', complete this collection of classic tales from the inspired pen of Washington Irving, one of America's greatest writers. AUTHOR: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American writer who is primarily remembered for his short stories, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rumpelstiltskin', but he wrote a variety of other books, including biographies of Christopher Columbus and Mohammed.
ISBN:
9781840221671
9781840221671
Category:
Myth & legend told as fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-02-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x9mm
Weight:
0.16kg
Washington Irving

Washington Irving was born in 1783 in New York City. In addition to writing fiction, Irving studied law, worked for his family's business in England and wrote essays for periodicals.

Some of his most famous tales, including Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, were first published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon.

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