The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, Paperback/Washington Irving

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Here are two favorite stories by ``the father of American literature`` exactly as Washington Irving wrote them, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with six handsome new illustrations. Once again in these pages, Ichabod Crane, the hapless schoolmaster of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, faces the terror of the Headless Horseman; and the henpecked husband of Rip van Winkle rises from a 20-year sleep to find a world vastly changed. Children and adults alike will enjoy the humor and suspense of these two beloved classics of American literature.

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Washington Irving

scriitor și diplomat american · 1783–1859

Washington Irving a fost un scriitor american de la începutul secolului al 19-lea. A scris o proză umoristică, de mare succes în epocă, cu ușoare accente de satiră politică, într-un stil romanțat și grațios.