Washington Irving

Text of three works by Washington Irving.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

Ghosts and goblins abound in Sleepy Hollow. The haunting tales of the Headless Horseman entrance Ichabod Crane. During the day, he finds the stories exciting. But at night he is afraid. His fear reaches new heights the night he is chased by this mysterious ghost.

A superstitious school master, rival for the hand of a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.