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Washington Irving (1783-1859), possibly America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, was best known for his short stories «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» and «Rip Van Winkle.» As an author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century, he wrote numerous accounts of his travels. Some of his historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington as well as several histories of 15th century Spain dealing with subjects such as the Moors, Christopher Columbus, and Alhambra. Irving advocated for writing as a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect writers from copyright infringement. His diligence and popularity gained him recognition and praise from European writers such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, and Charles Dickens. In «Bracebridge Hall», Irving uses his popular pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, to narrate a series of more than fifty loosely connected short stories and essays. This episodic novel, published in 1822, was freely based on Ashton Hall, occupied by members of the Bracebridge family near his sister's home in Birmingham.
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Warm and delightfully festive, this charming and long forgotten holiday classic was inspired, in part, by Dickens' A Christmas Carol and other celebrations of old-time Yule. Splendid suppers and rural churches, cheerful dances, and hearty spirits imbue this short novel with the magic of the season.
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In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina 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. The Headless Horseman, is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball, and «rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head», though the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom in disguise.
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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 11100 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon • The Oxford Book of American Essays • Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Old Christmas • Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of • Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains • Cuentos Clásicos del Norte, Segunda Serie (Spanisch), and Edward Everett Hale • Tales of a Traveller • Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida • Bracebridge Hall • The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West and Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Little Britain • Life of George Washington – Volume • Old Christmas • The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) • The Crayon Papers • Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies • Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography • Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Esperanto (Esperanto) • Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • etc.
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The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a particularly ghoulish fiend – the Headless Horseman – who is said to be the specter of a fallen soldier. Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with local hero Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt for the affections of the young, beautiful, and wealthy Katrina Van Tassel. Crane, considered an outsider by the community, takes part in an annual harvest party in a bid to win Katrina's hand in marriage. His scheme fails, however, and Crane has a run-in with Sleepy Hollow's most infamous resident.
