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THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW & OTHER STORIES by Washington Irving - Flexibound edition $17 - SOLD OUT
Race Point Publishing, 2017
Experience the timeless short stories by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories features The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, and others.
Washington Irving’s short stories have captured the imaginations of generations since they were originally published in the early nineteenth century. His stories were sometimes chilling, and sometimes reflect society, but they are consistently filled with adventure and a joy to read.
Irving's timeless characters like Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman, and Rip Van Winkle, are among the earliest of truly American literary figures, and remain required reading for students of literature, and have earned their place in the canon of must-reads for those that enjoy a good story.
In this new edition, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories are all complete and unabridged, and come in a highly produced, elegantly designed clothbound edition. This printing features an elastic closure and a new introduction from Krista Madsen.
The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed cloth-bound hardcovers feature a slipcase and ribbon marker, as well as a comprehensive introduction providing the reader with enlightening information on the author's life and works.
In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman, is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball, and "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head," though the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom in disguise.
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There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare and seek some quiet haunt, where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.
-Washington Irving, “The Mutability of Literature"
From the introduction by Krista Madsen:
You can’t help but wonder what Irving – who worried in his family letters about the threat of being forgotten – would think of all this. Of his impressive output, The Sketch Book survives best, rarely out of print in its nearly two-hundred-year history. And of the thirty-four pieces within, his two short stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” tend to mark the limits of what contemporary readers know about Irving. Though regarded as the father of the American short story, he more often wrote in other forms.
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