The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle - Brossura

Irving, Washington

Brossura

ISBN 10: 080950250X ISBN 13: 9780809502509

Casa editrice: WLC, 2009

Riassunto

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head."

Also includes "Rip Van Winkle."

Su questa edizione

• Editore: WLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 080950250X
• ISBN 13: 9780809502509
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 86