The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Spectre Bridegroom.Three Fabulous Ghost Stories from the "Sketch Book" - With Numerous Contemporary Illustrations

Along with "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle."The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of wealthy farmer Baltus Van Tassel. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina as a means of procuring Van Tassel's extravagant wealth ...

Product details

• Authors: Washington Irving
• Publisher: Books On Demand
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783750409835
• ISBN: 978-3-7504-0983-5
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 190 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 115 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends