The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during the Halloween season.The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch...

Magomet i ego preemniki: ZHizn' proroka Muhammeda Vashingtona Irvinga - eta kniga posvyashchena proroku Muhammedu, kotoryj osnoval odnu iz trekh osnovnyh mirovyh religij - islam, i mirnoj propoved'yu ob"edinil vokrug sebya massy lyudej, a zatem, uzhe v kachestve politicheskogo deyatelya i polkovodca, sozdal moshchnejshee gosudarstvo, polozhivshee nachalo Arabskomu halifatu. Kniga neozhidanno ponravilas'. Do nachala chteniya sushchestvovalo predubezhdenie povodu stilya izlozheniya, ved' kniga-to pisana v 19 veke. No net, vse ochen' dinamichno, faktologichno, s interesnymi vyvodami i...

Bright Reads Books from My Ink Shines (Rick Sellano, LLC.) brings Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." At a gigantic, 72-point font, we expect that reading will be easier for all. And reading for grandchildren may once again be a routine joy. Original authors and illustrators are always credited. Available on Amazon.com. The story is not complete without reading the two volumes.

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 - 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).