3 - 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving (1820)

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Hello everyone. Alex and I are back with another discussion of a famous early Washington Irving tale, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' We talk about Ichabod Crane as a cautionary tale for a "new man" moving to an insular American village. What does the killing of Ichabod, the supersitious, voracious, friend-zoned school teacher tell us about American openness to the stranger?

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Listen to the full 90-minute story as read by Librivox volunteer Bob Neufeld here.

https://librivox.org/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-by-washington-irving-2/

Biographer Brian Jay Jones on Irving at the New York Society Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZH6JJw6ngY&t=683s