Dover Children's Thrift Classics: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (Paperback)

from bun65

This book have two story,Rip Van Winkle and The lagend of Sleepy Hollow. I like former. The story's stage is American small town,and main charactor is Rip. Rip meets a strange man and he is a little different experience. I was surprised at Rip spend time twenty years. I didn't understand strange ...

from marsap

This book contained probably the most famous novellas/short stories by Washington Irving-the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains (based on some of the folktales of the people of the area), a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a ...

from Buffy-Tinkes

Worth the read, only for the simple fact that the two stories are those that almost everyone knows from childhood but have not really read themselves. Mr. Irving writes with the eloquent and visual style of his time and it's a refreshing brake from our modern style.

from AVoraciousReader

*Book source ~ Local library I picked up a few copies of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at the library because my daughter had to read it for her AP English class. I chose a few copies because I wasn't sure which one she'd want to read and of the four I read the one with Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Wi...

from HollyinNNV

Aside from Disney's adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, I have never been exposed to Irving's writing. In the early 1800's, Irving published The Sketch Book which contained Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. While Irving did create a large body of writings,...