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Title details for Legend of Sleepy Hollow (World Digital Library Edition) by Washington Irving - Available

Legend of Sleepy Hollow (World Digital Library Edition)

by Washington Irving
Debra Doyle PhD.
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Few novels can claim the influential power to change fantasy into fact, but in 1996 a mere sketch (a predecessor to the short story) did just that. North Tarrytown, New York long acknowledged to be the inspiration for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, officially changed its name to Sleepy Hollow. The haunting tale featured in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. contributed to it being one of the first American books to gain international readership.

Like most ghost stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow seduces the reader not just with breathless suspense, but also with splices of an uncertain love story. Katerina Van Tassel has come of age, but while her father wants her to marry Ichabod Crane, a distasteful schoolmaster, she merely flirts with him as a means of stirring to action Brom Bones (Abraham Van Brunt), her preferred suitor. The Headless Horseman rips through Sleepy Hollow, terrorizing the town, and leaving the reader to question whether the ghost Ichabod Crane sees is actually Brom Bones, a skilled horseman masquerading with a lighted jack-o-lantern.

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