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With "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is one of Irving's most anthologized, studied, and adapted sketches. Both stories are often paired together in books and other representations, and both are included in surveys of early American literature and Romanticism. [12]
- Washington Irving
- 1819
1 de mai. de 2021 · Memorably filmed by Tim Burton in a 1999 adaptation that changed a number of details of Irving’s original story, ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ is, along with ‘Rip Van Winkle’ (which we have analysed here), Irving’s best-known work.
22 de mai. de 2024 · “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” have been called the first American short stories. The protagonist of the story, Ichabod Crane, is a Yankee schoolteacher who lives in Sleepy Hollow, a Dutch enclave on the Hudson River.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
12 de jul. de 2007 · English. One story tells about a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world, and the other tells about a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman.
16 de jul. de 2022 · rip van winkle and the legend of sleepy hollow : washington irving : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” along with “Rip Van Winkle,” are the short stories for which Irving is best known. Irving was born in New York and was named after General George Washington (who hadn’t yet been elected President at the time of Irving’s birth, as the Constitution had not been either written or ratified by 1783).
Who can ever forget the terrifying night ride of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow and his lanky victim, Ichabod Crane? What happens to a henpecked husband who sleeps for twenty years in the enchanted Catskill Mountains?
