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Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Washington Irving
Narrator: Ken Eaken
Format: Abridged
Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-07-08
Publisher: Listener's Digest Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Classics, American Literature
Publisher's Summary:
The tale is set in the village of Terry Town, New York, where the commoners are beset by superstitions and wild visions. Ichabod, the priggish schoolmaster, when competing for the hand of the Hollow's fair damsel, is pursued by the village specter, the Headless Horseman.
Members Reviews:
Visions of the Disney Cartoon
So many years ago, and so many times have I watched Walt Disney's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." It is hard to tell if the cartoon was taken from the story or the story from the cartoon. The visions of the animated version never left my mind as I read this wonderful and deeply descriptive short story for the very first time just tonight. What a great tale!
Love this story!
One of my favorite tales! Love Irving's detail! You can see and feel it! The wording could trip up young readers, but what a wonderful opportunity to increase vocabulary!
Rather dry read.
THE story was very detailed including "old" English words and phrases. It was difficult to get through quickly, but as a read aloud to a classroom, I think that it would work. I wouldn't read aloud more than one chapter/section at a time. For better understanding of the story, many passages would need to be explained and put into today's terminology.
Spooky
I had never actually read this story and I love the creepy haunted vibe Irving projects in the story and makes the whole haunting come alive so well.
This old tale will never go out of favor.
To read the original text of Washington Irving, lends a special tone to the story: Remembering that Ichabod Crane was a figment of the imagination more than one and one half centuries ago. To have sat with friends around a fire to keep warm, with little or no other light adds to the fright factor of this spooky tale.