The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving illustrated

By: Irving, Washington

Washington Irving's classic, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," has been making spines tingle since 1820! Irving tapped into a timeless fear: the prospect of a late night journey shrouded in fog turning suddenly fatal. Our imaginations conjure every conceivable danger, but in one of history's most famous encounters, one Ichabod Crane comes--dare we say it, face to face? --with the "specter known at all the country firesides," the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. A classic, distinctively American tale, that evokes additional terror as Halloween comes and goes each year, this is the original, 1820 version, as originally found in Irving's collection of short stories entitled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09SPC6CNJ
• ISBN13: 9798419988163
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

You feel that you are there.

As with many readers, my previous exposure to this story was the Disney Cartoon and the ghoulish adaptation by Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci in the Movie "Sleepy Hollow" [Blu-ray] (1999). With my purchase of the story, I was catching up on the classics or samples from different writers. I did not realize this was so short of a story and had to get the images out of my head from the films. I am amazed by the good descriptive writing of Washington Irving. I had to set the book down occasionally to look up people and words. Now I ordered information on Hudson and Cotton Mather. I spent a year near the location of the story at West Point. Now I wonder if there was such a place as Sleepy Hollow. This is another example of the book being better than the movie. And I look forward to reading more of Washington Irving. You will be hooked on him also. In any event, it is worth the read.