by Washington Irving · Longman Italia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582420519
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«Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow» is a volume of tales by Washington Irving, published by Longman Italia in paperback (32 pages, in English).
The volume brings together two tales by the American author. In the first, Rip Van Winkle, a man who flees his demanding wife, ventures into the mountains and falls into a twenty-year sleep. In the second, schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, fond of ghost stories, faces the mystery of the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow.
It is level 1 of the Penguin Readers series of graded readers, in an abridged edition, and was published in 2000.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language and young readers at an initial level who approach the classics in a graded version.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
