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The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories : [The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent.]

Call Number

  • FICTION IRVI (CEN)

Publication Information

New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

Physical Description

xxv, 368 pages ; 20 cm.

Summary

"The timeless collection that introduced Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horseman Perhaps the marker of a true mythos is when the stories themselves overshadow their creator. Originally published under a pseudonym as The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories gave America its own haunted mythology. This collection of larger-than-life tales contains Washington Irving's best-known literary inventions-Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman, and Rip Van Winkle-that continue to capture our imaginations today"--

Notes

Published in Penguin: 1988. Previous edition with the title, published: 1999.

Originally published as: The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. USA: Twayne Publishers, 1978.

Contents

  • Author's account of himself
  • Voyage
  • Roscoe
  • Wife
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • English writers on America
  • Rural life in England
  • Broken heart
  • Art of book making
  • Royal poet
  • Country church
  • Widow and her son
  • Sunday in London
  • Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap
  • Mutability of literature
  • Rural funerals
  • Inn kitchen
  • Spectre bridegroom
  • Westminster Abbey
  • Christmas
  • Stage coach
  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas Day
  • Christmas dinner
  • London antiques
  • Little Britain
  • Stratford-on-Avon
  • Traits of Indian character
  • Philip of Pokanoket
  • John Bull
  • Pride of the village
  • Angler
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • L'Envoy.

Added Authors

Elizabeth L Bradley

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