The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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First published in 1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has become an enduring staple of early-American literature. Written by Washington Irving, author of Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been adapted numerous times, most notably in the 1999 Tim Burton film starring Johnny Depp, and in the 2013 television series which used the tale as inspiration for a modern-day retelling.
This e-book edition features a live table of contents and illustrations from an 1868 version of the text published by G. P. Putnam. Illustrations were inserted in the e-book at locations that are as close as possible to the original placement of the images in the original printed book.
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Washington Irving was a prolific early-American writer, most famous for his short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Born in Manhattan, New York during the last weeks of the American Revolution, Irving was named after America's hero, George Washington. Irving was restless for much of his young life, travelling around Europe and failing to settle into any one career. However, Irving worked at his writing and traveled in literary circles from early on, and he generally made his living by his pen. Although Irving is most famous for his fiction, he also worked as a journalist and essayist and he wrote many biographies and histories, including biographies of George Washington and Muhammed. Irving died in 1859, at the age of 76 after suffering a heart attack in his home. He is buried in the cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, the small Dutch town that inspired his famous story.
