by Washington Irving
I found this very disappointing and really struggled to keep going for all 47 pages. For a short story, it was long-winded and overstuffed with huge descriptiveness but very little actual action. And not in the least bit scary. I'm probably the only person in the whole wide world who didn't like ...
This story was part of the landscape of my childhood. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, but my father was an upstater, and my mother actually lived in Tarrytown itself when she and my grandma first came to this country. As integral to my folk knowledge as songs like "Low Bridge, Everybody Down"...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (short story) This is the short story of a man named Ichabod Crane who sojourns to Sleepy Hollow to become a school teacher to children of the vicinity, falls in lust with the daughter of a Dutch farmer, daydreams about the future of winning sweet Ka...
Fills in Pumpkin Square A quick read that was more food porn than scary/spooky story. I really don't have much to say other than I was bored reading about Ichabod Crane, freeloader expert. Endless descriptions of NY came at the expense of a plot. Once the Headless Horseman showed, things got inter...
bookshelves: re-read, boo-scary, fraudio, winter20092010, gothic, published-1820, kiddlewinks, re-visit-2014, north-americas, film-only, fradio, e-book, summer-2014, classic Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Ronyell read count: 3 RE-VISIT 2014: Recommended by Ronyell, Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Rabbit ...
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