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Title:
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Genre:
Fiction
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Binding:
Hardcover
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Chapters:
51
Synopsis:
The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow.
It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a sycophantic, 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, Baltus Van Tassel.
As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, 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”.
Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was ”to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related”. Although the nature of the Headless Horseman is left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom Bones in disguise.
ABOUT IRVING:
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century.
He was best known for his short stories ”The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and ”Rip Van Winkle”, both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra.
Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a sycophantic, 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, Baltus Van Tassel.
As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, 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”.
Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was ”to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related”. Although the nature of the Headless Horseman is left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom Bones in disguise.
ABOUT IRVING:
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century.
He was best known for his short stories ”The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and ”Rip Van Winkle”, both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra.
Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Publisher:
Dalmatian Press, LLC
Barcode:
9781577595397
Number of Copies:
1
Quantity:
1
Date Added:
2024-01-11 07:55:49