Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Irving, Washington

 
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In the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes to a much-changed world.

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WASHINGTON IRVING, the first American writer to make his living by his profession, was born April 3, 1783. At the age of six he was introduced to his namesake, George Washington. He studied law but then was sent to Europe because of his health and was to spend 17 years abroad. When he was thirty-five his family's business went bankrupt. It was then that he began to support himself by writing. He wrote letters, essays and short fiction. Washington Irving died in 1859.

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