The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van WinkleCourier Corporation, 01/01/1995 - 75 من الصفحات Here are two favorite stories by "the father of American literature" exactly as Washington Irving wrote them, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with six handsome new illustrations. Once again in these pages, Ichabod Crane, the hapless schoolmaster of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," faces the terror of the Headless Horseman, and the henpecked husband of "Rip Van Winkle" rises from a 20-year sleep to find a world vastly changed. Children and adults alike will enjoy the humor and suspense of these two beloved classics of American literature. |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 1 |
He would delight them equally by his anecdotes | 11 |
He was broad shouldered and doublejointed with | 20 |
Ichabods flimsy garments fluttered in the air as | 44 |
On a level spot in the centre was a company | 60 |
A fresh comely woman pressed through the throng | 70 |
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Balt Baltus Van Tassel beheld blue bridge broad Brom Bones brook cakes church churchyard clouds cocked cocked hat companion Dame Van Winkle Daredevil distance door drowsy Dutch eyes farm farmer farmhouse favourite fearful flagon fluttered foot Galloping Hessian ghosts glen goblin gossip haunted head headless horseman heard heart heels henpecked hill horse Ichabod Crane idle illustrated by Thea Indian corn Katrina Van Tassel kind knight errant Legend of Sleepy looked master neighbour neighbourhood Nicholas Vedder night ninepins old Gunpowder passed pedagogue Peter Stuyvesant pipe poor Rip psalm tune psalmody pumpkin rider Rip Van Winkle Rip's Ripper road round rustic saddle scene schoolhouse schoolmaster seen shoulder side Sleepy Hollow smoke spectre spirit steed stood story strange stream Tassel terror Thea Kliros thought tree turned urchin valley village voice WASHINGTON IRVING whip-poor-will whistle whole wild window wings witching Wolf