by Washington Irving · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405842808
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«Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow» is the graded reader by Washington Irving published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback, 32 pages.
It brings together two classic tales by Washington Irving. In «Rip Van Winkle», a man ventures into the mountains, has a strange encounter, and returns to his village twenty years later, with everything changed around him. In «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow», the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane crosses the path of the Headless Horseman on a dark night.
Level 1 of the Pearson English Graded Readers series, 2nd edition, in English, published in 2008.
Aimed at young people and adults learning English who are looking for reading material with graded language.
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.
