Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Penguin Readers, Level 1) - Softcover

Irving, Washington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582420512 ISBN 13: 9780582420519

Publisher: Pearson ESL, 2000

Synopsis

Presents the classic tale of a henpecked husband who escapes to the mountains and falls asleep for twenty years, along with the story of a superstitious schoolmaster who has a terrifying encounter with a 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson ESL
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0582420512
• ISBN 13: 9780582420519
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32