# The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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- Authors: [Washington Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/washington-irving)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-02-01

## Description

The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (based on Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham " Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during " some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who " rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head".

## Editions

### The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 1 h 23 min
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- ISBN: 978-14-7131-602-9
- Published: 2013-02-01
- Language: en_GB