by Washington Irving · Helbling-richmond · tapa dura · ISBN 9783852722306
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«The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» is Washington Irving's horror tale, published by Helbling-Richmond in hardback (68 pages, in English).
Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster, arrives in Sleepy Hollow, a rural valley in New York State where ghost legends abound. To win Katrina Van Tassel, young and rich, he must compete with the rough Brom Bones, while the dreaded Headless Horseman roams the local woods.
Edition adapted by Janet Olearski from the Helbling Readers Classics series, level 4 (A2/B1), with audio CD.
Aimed at pre-intermediate students of English as a second language and at young secondary-school readers.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
