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Аннотация
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.
Аннотация
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.
