The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow And Other Ghostly Tales Av Washington Irving

A stunning new edition of <I>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow </I>and other stories including <I>Rip Van Winkle. </I>Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library....

<p>In Irving''s great work, <i>The Sketch Book</i>, fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing...

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions.

Washington Irving’s career as a writer began obscurely at age seventeen, when his brother’s newspaper published his series of comic reports on the theater, theater-goers, fashions, balls, courtships, duels, and marriages of his contemporary...