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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham , England.
Washington Irving's headstone, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York. Irving returned from Spain in September 1846, took up residence at Sunnyside, and began work on an "Author's Revised Edition" of his works for publisher George Palmer Putnam.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", both of which were immediately acknowledged as The Sketch Book's finest pieces, American and English readers alike responded most strongly to the more sentimental tales, especially "The Broken Heart", – which Byron claimed had made him weep [23] – and "The Widow and Her Son".
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story by Washington Irving. See also Category:Sleepy Hollow, New York. Subcategories.
Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".Crane is portrayed in the original work, and in most adaptations, as a tall, lanky individual.
On Nov. 19, 1999, Sleepy Hollow debuted in theaters, marking the first live-action adaptation of Washington Irving's famed short story about Ichabod Crane and a headless horseman since 1922.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on Bedford Street near the center of Concord, Massachusetts. The cemetery is the burial site of a number of famous Concordians, including some of the United States ' greatest authors and thinkers, especially on a hill known as "Author's Ridge."
Head to the town for a reading of "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," visit the author's grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, and then stay for the Great Jack-'O-Lantern Blaze at historic Van Cortlandt Manor.