The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Wr - Washington Irving [0]
From the Pages of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings
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Washington Irving
The World of Washington Irving and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The First American Man of Letters
A Note on the Text
SELECTIONS FROM - LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE, GENT.
Letter I
Letter II
SELECTIONS FROM - SALMAGUNDI
No. I.-Saturday, January 24, 1807
No. III.—Friday, February 13, 1807
FROM MY ELBOW-CHAIR
LETTER FROM MUSTAPHA RUB-A-DUB KELI KHAN, - CAPTAIN OF A KETCH, TO ASEM ...
No. VII.—Saturday, April 4, 1807 - LETTER FROM MUSTAPHA RUB-A-DUB KELI KHAN, TO ...
No. XI.—Tuesday, June 2, 1807
LETTER FROM MUSTAPHA RUB-A-DUB KELI KHAN, - CAPTAIN OF A KETCH, TO ASEM ...
No. XX.—Monday, January 25, 1808 - FROM MY ELBOW-CHAIR (A SELECTION)
SELECTIONS FROM - THE SKETCH-BOOK
The Author’s Account of Himself
The Voyage
Roscoe
The Wife
Rip Van Winkle - A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.
English Writers On America
The Art of Book-Making
The Mutability of Literature - A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Inn Kitchen
The Spectre Bridegroom - A TRAVELLER’S TALE
Traits of Indian Character
Philip of Pokanoket - AN INDIAN MEMOIR
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER
L’ ENVOY
SELECTIONS FROM - BRACEBRIDGE HALL
The Hall
Story-Telling
The Stout Gentleman - A STAGE-COACH ROMANCE
The Historian
The Haunted House - FROM THE MSS. OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER
Dolph Heyliger
The Storm-Ship
The Author’s Farewell
SELECTIONS FROM - TALES OF A TRAVELLER
To the Reader
PART FIRST - STRANGE STORIES
The Great Unknown
The Hunting-Dinner
Adventure of the German Student
Adventure of the Mysterious Picture
Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger
The Story of the Young Italian
PART FOURTH - THE MONEY-DIGGERS
Hell-Gate
Kidd the Pirate
The Devil and Tom Walker
SELECTIONS FROM - A HISTORY OF NEW YORK [1844 revised edition]
The Author’s Apology
Notices - WHICH APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPERS PREVIOUS TO THE PUBLICATION OF THIS WORK
Account of the Author
To the Public
BOOK II - TREATING OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NIEUW NEDERLANDTS
Chapter I - IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED DIVERS REASONS WHY A MAN SHOULD NOT WRITE ...
Chapter II - CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF A MIGHTY ARK WHICH FLOATED, UNDER THE ...
Chapter VII - HOW THE PEOPLE OF PAVONIA MIGRATED FROM COMMUNIPAW TO THE ISLAND ...
Chapter IX - HOW THE CITY OF NEW AMSTERDAM WAXED GREAT UNDER THE PROTECTION OF ...
BOOK III - IN WHICH IS RECORDED THE GOLDEN REIGN OF WOUTER VAN TWILLER
Chapter I - OF THE RENOWNED WOUTER VAN TWILLER, HIS UNPARALLELED VIRTUES—AS ...
Chapter IV - CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE GOLDEN AGE, AND WHAT ...
BOOK IV - CONTAINING THE CHRONICLES OF THE REIGN OF WILLIAM THE TESTY
Chapter I - SHOWING THE NATURE OF HISTORY IN GENERAL; CONTAINING FARTHERMORE ...
Chapter II - HOW WILLIAM THE TESTY UNDERTOOK TO CONQUER BY PROCLAMATION—HOW HE ...
Chapter III - IN WHICH ARE RECORDED THE SAGE PROJECTS OF A RULER OF UNIVERSAL ...
Chapter IV - CONTAINING THE FEARFUL WRATH OF WILLIAM THE TESTY, AND THE ALARM ...
Chapter VII - GROWING DISCONTENTS OF NEW AMSTERDAM UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF ...
Chapter VIII - OF THE EDICT OF WILLIAM THE TESTY AGAINST TOBACCO—OF THE ...
BOOK V - CONTAINING THE FIRST PART OF THE REIGN OF PETER STUYVESANT, AND HIS ...
Chapter I - IN WHICH THE DEATH OF A GREAT MAN IS SHOWN TO BE NO VERY ...
BOOK VII - CONTAINING THE THIRD PART OF THE REIGN OF PETER THE HEADSTRONG—HIS ...
Chapter XI - HOW PETER STUYVESANT DEFENDED THE CITY OF NEW AMSTERDAM FOR ...
Chapter XII - CONTAINING THE DIGNIFIED RETIREMENT, AND MORTAL SURRENDER OF ...
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Inspired by Washington Irving
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From the Pages of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings
From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left all is vacancy until you step on the opposite shore, and are launched at once into the bustle and novelties of another world.
(from “The Voyage,” page 52)
“There is