An annotated edition of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," which contains more than thirty essays, sketches, and tales by nineteenth-century American writer Washington Irving, including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.".
Contains two stories set in the Catskill Mountains, including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in which a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; and "Rip Van Winkle," the story of a man who sleeps for twenty years and wakes to a much-changed world.