Irving, Washington

Two stories from the Catskill Mountains: one featuring a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world and the other, a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman.

Contains two famous stories: The first of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman, and the second about Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep and awakened twenty years later.

Contains excerpts from: "The sketch book, " "Tales of a traveler, " "The Alhambra, " "A tour on the prairies, " "Sketches in Paris in 1825, " "Wolfert's roost and other papers, " "Knickerbocker's history of New York, book IV, " and "Crayon miscellany.".

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

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"; also contains a prospectus and an advertisement from early editions.

Presents the first four works of American writer Washington Irving, including "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.,"and "Salmagundi," both compilations of comic and satirical reports on New York's social scene; the spoof "A History of New York"; and "The Sketch Book," a series of nostalgic vignettes.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.