IRVING WASHINGTON
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Language
English
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Description
When Ichabod Crane arrives in the spooky little village of Sleepy Hollow as the new schoolmaster, Katrina Van Tassel is instantly drawn to him. Through their shared love of books and music, they form a friendship that quickly develops into romance. Ichabod knows that as an itinerant schoolteacher of little social standing, he has nothing to offer the wealthy Katrina – unlike her childhood friend-turned-enemy, Brom Van Brunt, who is the suitor Katrina's...
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Series
The Library of America volume 52
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Vicens Vives
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Español
Description
The legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. Rip Van Winkle: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author
Series
Collection Folio bilingue volume 187
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
impr. 2014, cop. 2014
Language
English
Description
Paru en 1820, Sleepy Hollow est un texte fondateur de la littérature américaine. Il constitue un mélange d'enchantement et de fantastique, puisant dans les légendes allemandes et l'histoire immédiate américaine. Dans Rip Van Winkle, le héros rencontre, au cours d'une promenade à travers les monts Kaastkill, un groupe de gnomes occupés à jouer une mystérieuse partie de quilles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...