The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) - Washington Irving

Posted : 3 years, 7 months ago at May 21 13:14

In rural America of the early nineteenth Century, by the Hudson River, lies the small village of Sleepy Hollow. The only recently arrived scholl teacher, the tall and lean Ichabod Crane, likes to spend his evenings by the fire with the old Dutch wives, listening to local horror stories of ghouls and goblins and haunted houses, among which that of the headless horseman, until one night after leaving the ball, he is chased by the legendary Galloping Hessian. I read this story because I love the film, and was surprised to see how few pages, less than ten out of fifty, were actually devoted to the mystery of the headless horseman itself. Although very well written, with descriptions that are stunningly real, the book left me hungry for more. Rip Van Winkle: A fairy tale. Set in the ...Read more

Rating : 6/10