- The valley known as Sleepy Hollow hides from the world in the high hills of New York state.
- The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts, how he met the horseman returning from his foray into Sleepy Hollow, and was obliged to...
- ...by Washington Irving also known informally as “The Headless Horseman” — The short story by the American author Irving was originally published in 1820.
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book...
- The immediate cause, however, of the prevalence of supernatural stories in these parts, was doubtless owing to the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow.
- Project Gutenberg's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions...
- The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America's colonial period.
- The other narrative effect Irving uses to clever effect in ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ is to keep the focalisation of the story quite close to Ichabod Crane himself.
- These were elements that Irving did not need to manufacture: he exported them from his experiences shooting squirrels in the Sleepy Hollow woods and spending...
- The short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is one of the two most appreciated stories of Washington Irving.