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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales, or, The sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. / Washington Irving ; introduction by Alice Hoffman ; notes by William Etter.

Edition:

Modern Library pbk. ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Modern Library, 2001.

Description:

xxii, 358 p. ; 21 cm.

Summary:

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."

Series:

Modern Library classics.

Subjects:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 -- Travel -- England.

Americans -- England -- History -- 19th century.

Christmas -- England.

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction.

England -- Description and travel.

Other Title:

Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, gent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Author's account of himself -- Voyage -- Roscoe -- Wife -- Rip Van Winkle -- English writers on America -- Rural life in England -- Broken heart -- Art of book making -- Royal poet -- Country church -- Widow and her son -- Sunday in London -- Boar's Head Tavern, East Cheap -- Mutability of literature -- Rural funerals -- Inn kitchen -- Spectre bridegroom -- Westminster Abbey -- Christmas -- Stage coach -- Christmas Eve -- Christmas Day -- Christmas dinner -- London antiques -- Little Britain -- Stratford-on-Avon -- Traits of Indian character -- Philip of Pokanoket -- John Bull -- Pride of the village -- Angler -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- L'Envoy.

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LCCN:

2001030430

ISBN:

037575721X

9780375757211

Other Number:

46384289

System Availability:

4

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

4

Control Number:

229612

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

FICTION Irving