For the ultimate reader’s guide to the great literary classics, check out the website for the Tea and Ink Society. This classic design and art deco illustration, fashioned after vintage poster art, is available as a canvas, a framed art piece, poster, print, metal sign, or even as a postcard or set of notecards. While our Travel Poster Art commemorates special destinations, our Literary Classics Art celebrates our favorite imaginary journeys. As the artists of Anderson Design Group, we enjoy using our talents to celebrate culture and encourage adventure into the great literary classics of humankind’s best writers and authors. Sleepy Hollow, where the story is set, is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was first published in 1820.
Twitchell, Constance Garnett, S.E.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a 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. The Gentleman from San FranciscoĪmbrose Gwinnett Bierce. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManĬharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Legend of Sleepy Hollowįyodor Dostoevsky. The great number of stories presented has given opportunity to illustrate different types of short story writing. The students who read this book will be more awake to the present, and will be better citizens of today. The authors represented are among the leading authors of the day, the stories are principally stories of present-day life, the themes are themes of present-day thought. Here is a collection that is entirely modern. Washington Irving ’s famous opening to this story, which first appeared in The Sketch Book in 1820, evokes the dreamlike, almost mystical quality of the Hudson River Valley. It is important in the high school to guide taste and appreciation in short story reading, so that the reading of days when school life is over will be healthful and encouraging. Analysis of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Not every boy or girl will read novels after leaving school, but every boy or girl is certain to read short stories. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad. The short story is today our most common literary product. Read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving with a free trial. The short story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with "the first men who told their stories round the savage campfire."
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