Hitchner, Earle,

The legend of Sleepy Hollow /Washington Irving ; retold by Earle Hitchner ; illustrated by John van Buuren. - Mahwah, New Jersey : Troll Associates, (c)1990. - 46 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. - Troll illustrated classics .

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. There are few readers who are unfamiliar with Washington's timeless story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the terrifying Headless Horseman. But The Legend of Sleepy Hollow offers more than a mere ghost story, providing readers with an excellent social commentary about how people lived outside the cities and circles of politics in the early 19th century.



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Ghost stories.

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