- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- and Other Stories
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- by Washington Irving
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- Introduction by S.T. Joshi
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- This
volume is the first to assemble all of Washington
Irving's short stories in the supernatural genre, and the
impressive array of work on offer makes Irving a worthy
pioneer of the American weird tradition.
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- Perhaps
best known for two tales steeped in early American
legendry, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow', Washington Irving emerges as the most
distinguished American writer in the genre of the period
following the early Gothic novels of 1764-1820 to Edgar
Allan Poe in the 1840s.
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- Born in
New York in 1783, the young Irving practiced law and
travelled widely in Europe, where many of his stories are
set. Taking up journalism and then fiction, Irving
remained devoted to his own country and was knowledgeable
about the legends of the early Dutch settlers and Native
Americans of the New York area. He was thus able to imbue
the American weird story with its own supernatural
milieu. The scope of Irving's weird writing is thus
impressively wide-ranging, and it is, until now, only its
scattered nature that has robbed him of the credit he
deserves.
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- The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a sewn hardback book of
404+ xi pages with silk ribbon marker, head and
tailbands, and d/w.
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- Limited
to 300 copies.
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-17-2
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- £35.00/$60 inc. p&p.
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