The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories in The Sketch Book - Softcover

Washington Irving

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451524950 ISBN 13: 9780451524959

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1961

Synopsis

Washington Irving's classic tale about the superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, who has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman, is accompanied by other tales and essays from The Sketch Book, including "The Specter Bridegroom," "Westminster Abbey," "Rip Van Winkle," and "The Mutability of Literature." Reissue.

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I stepped upon the land of my forefathers - but felt than I was a stranger in the land. With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the first classic American short stories, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'. Based on Irving's final revision of his most popular work, this new edition includes comprehensive explanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modern reader. In her introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the author forged a new idiom, the 'Literary Picturesque', to accommodate and turn to advantage his dilemma of dual literary allegiances.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0451524950
• ISBN 13: 9780451524959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 381