Irving Washington - The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle. Little treasures the Flame TREE Collectable Classics are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning gift edition features deluxe cover treatments ribbon markers luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. First published in The Sketch Book in 1819 20, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane who comes to live in Sleepy Hollow a Dutch settlement near the Hudson River. It is a place that abounds with local superstitions including one concerning a headless horseman. Crane's eye is caught by Katrina van Tassel the daughter of a wealthy farmer and he starts to court her. This behaviour provokes the ire of another would - be - suitor Brom Bones a renowned village prankster. At a party Crane confesses his love for Katrina who rejects him. On his way home he encounters the horseman who hurls his head at Crane. Ichabod Crane is never heard of again. The only traces that remained of him were his horse saddle hat and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. What did happen to Ichabod Crane that night and who was the Headless Horseman?
Title: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Author(s): Irving Washington
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Barcode: 9781839641831
Pages: 512 Pages
Publication Date: 11/24/2020
Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
Category: Classic Horror & Ghost Stories