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Book Review of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Washington Irving wrote with a rand of different styles on many subjects, and this collection of stories is taken from seven of his forty volumes. It offeres a wider insight into the workds of Irving than just his most famous works: the enjoyable stories of The Legend of Sleepy hollow, in which lanky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane meets the headless horseman, and RIp vvan Winkle who falls asleep for 20 years.