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Book Synopsis When Ichabod Crane, an awkward and superstitious schoolteacher, moves to the town of Sleepy Hollow for work, he at first earns attention only from the housewives, who are amused by his large appetite and tall, lanky body. But once Ichabod decides to try for the attention of Katrina Van Tressel, the town’s most eligible bachelorette and only child of a wealthy farmer, he finds himself in competition with the most popular man in town. Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is a rowdy local hero who already had intentions to marry Katrina. Usually able to settle disputes with a physical display of brute force, Bones is stumped when he is unable to goad Ichabod into a fight. Since Ichabod is mostly clueless to social cues and customs, Bones resorts to a series of pranks in order to deliver retribution. When the final chance to win Katrina’s hand in marriage arrives at a local party, Ichabod must overcome the pranks and trials to defeat Bones and win Katrina’s love. Originally published in a collection of Irving Washington’s short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a gothic tale that caters to a need for adventure, spookiness, and humor. Since it’s publication two hundred years ago, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has inspired many film, television, and literary adaptations. With memorable characters and a vivid setting, Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has remained a classic and popular contribution to American literature. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving is now presented in an easy-to-read and modern font with a unique cover design, making it more appealing than ever to explore Ichabod Crane’s adventures and the mysteries of Sleepy Hollow.

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Book SynopsisThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories features the timeless short stories of Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” and others.

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Book SynopsisThe timeless collection that introduced Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless HorsemanPerhaps the marker of a true mythos is when the stories themselves overshadow their creator. Originally published under a pseudonym as The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories gave America its own haunted mythology. This collection of larger-than-life tales contains Washington Irving’s best-known literary inventions—Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman, and Rip Van Winkle—that continue to capture our imaginations today.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by intrTrade Review"Washington Irving... makes Nathaniel Hawthorne read like Dr. Seuss!"

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Book SynopsisThe Legends of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle are two short stories that have been adapted for Elementary Level readers in this book. Written by the famous author Washington Irving, these two stories are dark comedies with ghost/mystery themes that are set around the period of the American War of Independence.

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Book SynopsisIn the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred years.

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Book SynopsisEngland, 1820: The isolated town of Sleepy Hollow is disrupted by the arrival of a new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who challenges the town''s superstitions with science, reason and fact. The locals instantly mistrust him; but Katrina van Fleet, heiress to Sleepy Hollow''s rich land is charmed by his intellect and passion. But Ichabod is mistaken: as behind each one of the villagers'' tales lies a dark and bloody truth. As the spirits of the Hollow Wood grow restless, and as the hooves of the Headless Horseman thunder ever nearer, Katrina is forced to make a choice that will change the fate of Sleepy Hollow forever.Based on Washington Irving''s infamous short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a powerful and atmospheric musical by Helen Watts and Eamonn O''Dwyer. It is a story of community; a story of faith, of blood and belief; a story that asks the simple question: what happens when good people make bad choices?

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of thirty-four essays and short stories, Washington Irving explores the personality of his pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, while providing a study on human behavior. Rip Van Winkle introduces the famed literacy title character, an unmotivated, care-free man who drinks and parties with strangers in the mountains, falls asleep, and wakes up twenty years later in post-revolution America. Also among this collection are tales of sentiment, such as The Broken Heart, which follows a young woman who grieves the death of her lover. Often described as a tear-jerking narrative, The Widow and Her Son depicts an old Englishwoman as she cares for her dying son after his return from his military service at sea. Switching moods, A Sunday in London provides a vivid portrait of a day in London, focusing on the ways the Church influenced the day’s events. In a similar observant lens, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon includes a five-part narrative on Christmas celebrations, starting with a refection on the holiday and concluding with a description of Christmas dinner. Finally, the collection ends with the famous and beloved tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horsemen in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Featuring ghost stories, anthropological essays, and emotional narratives, <1> The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon includes the best works of Washington Irving. Originally published as a serial publication starting 1819, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon was released in seven highly anticipated installments. With sentiment, elegance, and beautiful prose that excites the imagination, Irving sought to eliminate the animosity between English and American literature with this collection of work. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon impressed both Americans and the British, capturing the attention of many other influential writers such as Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. With classic stories, characters, and a privileged look into historical events and traditions, Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon continues to excite and satiate readers, even two-hundred years later. This edition of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon features an eye-catching cover design and is printed in a stylish font, creating an approachable reading experience for a modern audience.

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Book Synopsis Washington Irving remains one of the most recognized American authors of the 19th century, remembered for short stories like Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He also accomplished other writing feats, including penning George Washington''s biography and other life stories. Throughout his life, Irving was at odds with socially-approved ways of being a man. Irving purportedly saw himself and was seen by others as feminine, shy, and non-confrontational. Likely related to this, he chose to engage with other men''s fortunes and adventures by writing, defining his male identity vicariously, through masculine archetypes both fictional and non-fictional. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, this reading reconstructs Irving''s life-long struggle to somehow win a place among other men. Readers will recognize masculine themes in his tales from the Spanish period, his western adventures, as well as in historical biograTrade Review“A smart, original, and provocative study.” - Andrew Burstein, Charles P. Manship Professor of History, Louisiana State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueOne. Anima Consciousness and Archetypal MasculinitiesTwo. "Because it was fun": Whimsicality, Gentility, and the Loss of Communal ManhoodThree. Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and Other Troubled MasculinitiesFour. "Dear old romantic Spain": Purloined HeroesFive. On the Prairies and in the West: Manhood Wrapped in the Nation's FlagSix. Life of George Washington: Manly Perfection in the Father of His CountryEpilogueChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWashington Irving’s Critique of American Culture challenges long-standing views of Washington Irving. He has been portrayed as writing in the 18th century style of Addison and Goldsmith, without have much substance of his own. Irving has also been accused of being insufficiently American, and adrift in an identity crisis. The author argues that Irving addressed the American cultural context very extensively, a writer of substance who articulated an ethic of world citizenship that was found in the philosophy of ancient Greek Cynics and Stoics. This ethic was united with a love of picturesque travel, which emphasized variety and texture in experience, resulting in an extraordinary affirmation of the value of cultural diversity in the new Republic. Irving was, in fact, a liminal figure straddling Romantic and neoclassical modes of writing and acting. The author draws attention to Irving's success as a writer in the pictorial mode. Irving also expressed a critique of cultural loss and environmental destruction like that articulated by the artist Thomas Cole. The work embraces an interdisciplinary approach, where insights from philosophy, religion, art history, and social history shed light on an underestimated writer.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Style with SubstanceChapter 2: Satire in the Name of World CitizenshipChapter 3: The Picturesque Aesthetic and Neo-classical/ Romantic Boundary-CrossingChapter 4: American Ovid, American Virgil, American Claude, and Pumpkin SmasherChapter 5: Irving’s Critique of American Culture in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Chapter 6: World Citizenship on Frontiers Near and Far

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Book SynopsisThe present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the book presents a short history of sanctuaries in nineteenth-century American and European literature.Trade Review«This book by Hugo Walter is a thoughtful, insightful, and most comprehensive treatment of the concept of sanctuary in literature and a delight to read. It will make a perfect addition to any library of great literature.» (Mary Jane Clerkin, Berkeley College Online) «This book is a profound examination of spaces of renewal and vitality found in literature and art. While the focus is on Irving, Professor Walter incorporates his expansive knowledge of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature to create a compelling argument that these sanctuaries are powerful constants in all of world literature.» (Richard Schultz, Berkeley College)Table of ContentsContents: Sanctuaries in Nineteenth Century American and European Literature – Rip Van Winkle – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Sanctuaries in «The Mutability of Literature» and Other Essays.

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Book SynopsisWashington Irving’s Critique of American Culture: Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship challenges long-standing views of Washington Irving. He has been portrayed as writing in the 18th century style of Addison and Goldsmith, without having much substance of his own. Irving has also been accused of being insufficiently American and adrift in an identity crisis. The author argues that Irving addressed the American cultural context very extensively—he was a writer of substance who articulated an ethic of world citizenship that was found in the philosophy of ancient Greek cynics and stoics. This ethic was united with a love of picturesque travel, which emphasized variety and texture in experience, resulting in an extraordinary affirmation of the value of cultural diversity in the new Republic. Irving was, in fact, a liminal figure straddling Romantic and neoclassical modes of writing and acting. The author draws attention to Irving’s success as a writer in the pictorial mode. Irving also expressed a critique of cultural loss and environmental destruction like that articulated by the artist Thomas Cole. The work embraces an interdisciplinary approach, where insights from philosophy, religion, art history, and social history shed light on an underestimated writer.Trade ReviewMcCree presents Irving (1783–1859) as both an 18th-century neoclassic and a 19th-century Romantic—and he thoroughly and logically develops this bifurcated view in this volume’s six chapters. McCree reveals Irving to be not only a cynic who believed in world citizenship but also a Romantic whose verbal sketches were inspired by American painters such as Thomas Cole. After a review of past scholarship, McCree employs Irving’s cynical philosophy to analyze his writings on Native American, Quaker, and African American injustices. Next, McCree turns to Irving’s “picturesque art,” examining his history of American civilization, especially New York, which was inspired by the Romantic landscape painters. Then, in a chapter dedicated to Irving’s Sketch-Book, especially “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” McCree depicts Irving as a cynic attacking American culture. But the final chapter turns to Irving’s travel writings about the West, writings that exemplify his belief in world citizenship. Assiduously researched, this volume cogently presents Irving as a world citizen who criticized American nationalism, industrialism, and culture, but also as a writer who embraced the American picturesque, its diversity and natural beauty. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice Reviews *This is the most original and provocative examination of Irving’s literary identity in years. McCree deftly probes the balancing act, as he describes it, between the groundbreaking author’s Enlightenment skepticism and his Romantic dream-spinning. With an eye toward both classical and eighteenth-century influences, he returns Irving to his deserved place as a literary stylist whose descriptive skill and philosophic values have been trifled with by nearsighted critics of the modern age. -- Andrew Burstein, Louisiana State University, author of The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington IrvingTable of ContentsChapter 1: Style with SubstanceChapter 2: Satire in the Name of World CitizenshipChapter 3: The Picturesque Aesthetic and Neo-classical/ Romantic Boundary-CrossingChapter 4: American Ovid, American Virgil, American Claude, and Pumpkin SmasherChapter 5: Irving’s Critique of American Culture in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Chapter 6: World Citizenship on Frontiers Near and Far

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents&> Louisa May Alcott, “Contraband” Sherman Alexie, “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” Sherwood Anderson, “The Egg” Margaret Atwood, “Rape Fantasies” Mary Hunter Austin, “The Basket Maker” James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson” Andrea Barrett, “The Littoral Zone” John Barth, “Lost in the Funhouse” Rick Bass, “Antlers” * Ann Beattie, “Janus” Alison Bechdel, From Fun Home * Saul Bellow, “Looking for Mr. Green” Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover” Kay Boyle, “Astronomer’s Wife” T. Coraghessan Boyle, “Greasy Lake” * Ray Bradbury, “August 2002: Night Meeting” Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” John Cheever, “The Swimmer” * Anton Chekhov, “The Darling” Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog” Kate Chopin, “The Storm” Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street” Samuel L. Clemens, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Grace Stone Coates, “Wild Plums” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” Charles Dickens, “The Signal-Man” * E.L. Doctorow, "Wakefield" Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” * Fedor Dostoevski, “The Grand Inquisitor” Anne Enright, “Natalie” * Ralph Ellison, “King of the Bingo Game” Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams” E. M. Forster, “The Road from Colonus” Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “If I Were a Man” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” Nickolai Gogol, “The Overcoat” Nadine Gordimer, “A Beneficiary” Thomas Hardy, “The Three Strangers” Bret Harte, “Tennessee’s Partner” Nathaniel Hawthorne “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” Pam Houston, “How to Talk to a Hunter” Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” W. W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw” Henry James, “The Real Thing” Gish Jen, “In the American Society” Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron” Ha Jin, “Saboteur” James Joyce, “Araby” James Joyce, “The Dead” Bel Kaufman, “Sunday in the Park” Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” * W. P. Kinsella, “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa” Rudyard Kipling, “They” William Kittredge, “We Are Not in This Together” Jhumpa Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies” * D.H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums” * Ursula K. Le Guin, “Horse Camp” Doris Lessing, “Wine” Jack London, “To Build a Fire” Katherine Mansfield, “Her First Ball” Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill” Bobbie-Ann Mason, “Shiloh” * Guy De Maupassant, “The Necklace” Guy De Maupassant, “Rust” Maile Meloy, “Travis, B.” Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” Alice Munro, “Passion” * H. H. Munro (“Saki”), “The Open Window” H.H. Munro (“Saki”), “Sredni Vashtar” Joyce Carol Oates, “The Lady with the Pet Dog” Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” * Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Frank O’Connor, “Guests of the Nation” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” Katherine Anne Porter, “The Grave” Annie Proulx, “Them Old Cowboy Songs” * Annette Sanford, “Nobody Listens When I Talk” George Saunders, “Puppy” * Irwin Shaw, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” Leslie Marmon Silko, “Yellow Woman” Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Gimpel the Fool” John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Markheim” Bram Stoker, “Dracula’s Guest” * Amy Tan, “Two Kinds” * Shaun Tan, From The Arrival * James Thurber, “The Catbird Seat” Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” Judy Troy, “The Order of Things” * Ivan Turgenev, “The Country Doctor” John Updike, “A&P” * John Updike, “Separating” Alice Walker, “Nineteen Fifty-Five” * Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path” Dorothy West, “My Baby” Edith Wharton, “Roman Fever” * William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force” Tobias Wolff, “Powder” Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” Patricia Zelver, "Love Letters" Biographical Notes A Short Story Handbook Credits

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