When he sets his eyes on a local beauty Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of a rich local farmer, he does not even imagine yet the competition he has yet to overcome to claim her hand, the competition that stems especially from Katrina’s suitor Brom Van Brunt. At the centre of this tale is Ichabod Crane, an odd and superstitious young man who teaches at a local school in one Dutch settlement in New York State. Drawing inspiration from folklore that dates back to the Middle Ages and which concerns the sightings of the Headless Horseman, Irving wrote a haunting tale of one strange village, ghostly apparitions and unrequited love. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story by American author Washington Irving. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – ★★★ ★★ this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of Sleepy Hollow . Sleepy Hollow, the placeįrom the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants . The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was first published in 1820 in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., a collection of short stories (Amazon link). Read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (downloadable PDF: legend-of-sleepy-hollow). Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.” “Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Irving’s vivid character descriptions convey a distinct impression of each, and his description of Ichabod Crane’s dancing is especially evocative: Ichabod Crane disappears, and the “schoolhouse, being deserted, soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plough-boy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.” The tale climaxes with a dramatic ride through a dark swamp and an encounter with a headless horseman near a reportedly haunted tree. Hometown rival Brom Bones makes life difficult for Crane, playing practical jokes and telling ghost stories that alarmed the nervous outsider. Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the story of the ill-fated 1790 courtship of Katrina Van Tassel, daughter of a wealthy farmer, by superstitious Yankee schoolmaster Ichabod Crane.
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