Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Hardcover

Irving, Washington; Sleepy Hollow Restorations (Organization)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0912882425 ISBN 13: 9780912882420

Publisher: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1980

Synopsis

Period illustrations help tell the stories of a lazy man who slept for twenty years and a frail schoolteacher who is terrified by a mysterious, headless horseman

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?

About the Author:

Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Following his return to the U.S. in 1846, he began work on a five-volume biography of Washington that was published from 1855-1859. Washington Irving died in 1859 in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sleepy Hollow Restorations
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0912882425
• ISBN 13: 9780912882420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Darley Felix Octavius Carr