legend of sleepy hollow

Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Retells the legend of Sleepy Hollow, about the school master Ichabod Crane, who comes across the Headless Horseman, a spirit that haunts the town.

Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow determined to forget Caspian, the boy, or rather ghost, she fell in love with, and she is just beginning to settle in at school and become interested in her lab partner Ben, when she learns she can never truly move on.

What if there was more to the ghostly fable than meets the eye? What if Irving's account was based on fact? In this book, you will find long-forgotten lore about the headless spirits that have plagued mankind for centuries, and perhaps even now seek ingress into our world.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

"Carter Lewis is having trouble making it through "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," so his cousin Isabelle suggests that he use his uncle's virtual reality machine to enter into the book as a character--and meet the Headless Horseman up-close and personal"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Abbey knows that Caspian is her destiny and theirs is a bond that transcends even death, but as Abbey finally learns the full truth about the dark fate that links her to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, she suddenly has some very difficult choices to make.

Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow determined to forget Caspian, the boy, or rather ghost, she fell in love with, and she is just beginning to settle in at school and become interested in her lab partner Ben, when she learns she can never truly move on.

Seventeen-year-old Abbey knows that Caspian is her destiny and theirs is a bond that transcends even death, but as Abbey finally learns the full truth about the dark fate that links her to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, she suddenly has some very difficult choices to make.

Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow determined to forget Caspian, the boy, or rather ghost, she fell in love with, and she is just beginning to settle in at school and become interested in her lab partner Ben, when she learns she can never truly move on.