Washington Irving
Author
Series
Aula de literatura volume 32
Language
Español
Formats
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
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
Series
Western frontier library volume 7
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 146
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Aegypan Press
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
Tales of a Traveler was written in 1824, under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." One of Irving's better-known pseudonyms was Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name inextricably linked to New York City, and to today's New York Knicks. Tales of a Traveler tells a number of humorous stories and anecdotes about exotic dinners and European travels of Geoffrey Crayon and his colorful relatives. Full of dry wit, Tales of a Traveler will please readers today...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
An annotated edition of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," which contains more than thirty essays, sketches, and tales by nineteenth-century American writer Washington Irving, including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Author
Publisher
Nelson Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1955
Language
English
Description
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some mysterious mountain men and tastes a strange brew with unexpected effects. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" recounts schoolmaster Ichabod Crane's dream...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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...
20) Sleepy Hollow
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A New York magistrate orders Ichabod Crane to travel to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate two murders. Crane is determined to apprehend the murderous Headless Horseman and prove him to be a flesh-and-blood mortal