The Legend of Sleepy Hollow By Washington Irving, The Complete Unabridged Audio Book on standard audio cd ( playable in any cd player & fully digitally remastered )
A short story from his collection written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece 'Rip Van Winkle', 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.
Plot Summary
The story is set circa 1800 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer.
As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during 'some nameless battle' of the American Revolutionary War, and who 'rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head'.
Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was 'to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related'. |
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