'Il destriero che cavalcava aveva ormai perso quasi tutto, tranne la cattiveria. Era macilento ed esausto, con un collo da pecora e la testa simile a un martello; aveva perso la pupilla di un occhio, che appariva fisso e spettrale, mentre l'altro brillava di pura malvagità...'

Published to popular acclaim in 1809, this satire, considered the first important contribution to American comic literature, was Washington Irving's first book. It begins by relating the creation and population of the world, including the discovery of what would become New York. It ends by recording the eventual fall of the Dutch dynasty.

An adaptation of Washington Irving's tale in which a superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Classic / American English Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?

In graphic novel format, presents the story of a superstitious schoolmaster who falls is in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter and has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Età di lettura: da 12 anni.

Are all the lights on?

Is there a parent in the house?

Are the windows shut and locked? Double-check!

They HAVE to be if you are going to read this book, which is undoubtedly the scariest rendition of one of the greatest ghost stories ever told: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

While you may have heard of Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel, and the Headless Horseman, you've never SEEN them quite like this -- through the macabre imagination of the inimitable Gris Grimly.

So, take a deep breath and take a long look. And you may want to bring a flashlight to bed with you tonight....

Ghosts and goblins abound in Sleepy Hollow. The haunting tales of the Headless Horseman entranced Ichabod Crane. During the day, he found the stories exciting. But at night he was afraid. His fear reached new heights the night he was chased by the mysterious ghost! The terrifying ride is brought to life in this striking graphic novel adaptation.

 
The first great American man of letters, Washington Irving became an international celebrity almost overnight upon publication of The Sketch Book in 1820, which included the short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” These two tales remain his crowning achievement, but in addition to being a writer of short stories, Irving was also an acclaimed essayist, travel writer, biographer, and historian.
 
This volume showcases Irving's best work across a variety of genres, including whimsical newspaper articles about New York society, the theater, and contemporary fashions; charming travel pieces that evocatively weave together history and legend; humorous stories and satirical essays from The Sketch-Book and its sequel Bracebridge Hall, and excerpts from A History of New York, considered the first great American book of comic literature. The author's success enabled him to earn a living by writing alone, unheard of for an American at that time.
 
Irving's energetic, often tongue-in-cheek prose style, together with his ability to blend roguish satire, pathos, and picturesque description, had a profound influence upon the popular culture of his day. His writings have become a cornerstone in the foundation of the American literary tradition.
 
Peter Norberg received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1998. Since 1997 he has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. A specialist on the writers associated with the transcendentalist movement, he has written and lectured extensively on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the critical reaction to transcendentalism in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Washington Irving embarked on a trilogy of books on the American West that would prove decisive in molding his compatriots' conception of the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northwest.
Irving's own encounter with the West came in 1832 when he accompanied the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on a month-long journey to what is now eastern Oklahoma. His account of that trip, A Tour on the Prairies (1835), described wild landscape, rugged inhabitants, and dramatic chases and hunts with an eye for romantic sublimity and a keen appreciation of the frontiersman's 'secret of personal freedom.'
In The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837), Irving focused on a single memorable figure - an army officer and fur trader who may also have been an American spy tracking British ambitions in the far country - to reveal the flavor of frontier life in the Rockies and beyond. This lively saga, based on Bonneville's own memoir of his wandering career, is Irving's most fully realized portrait of mountain men and western Indians.

Drawing on Bonneville's own journals, Washington Irving chronicles the exploits and adventures of Captain James Bonneville, one of the earliest explorers of the American West, detailing his various journeys with mountain man Joseph Rutherford Walker; their discovery of Yosemite, Walker Pass, and the Bonneville Salt Flats; and life among the Native Americans and trappers of the West. Reprint.

Padre fondatore del genere del racconto moderno, Washington lrving è stato il primo dei narratori americani ad essere annoverato tra i classici della letteratura inglese. Maestro americano per eccellenza, lrving non fa nulla per nascondere i suoi forti debiti verso il folklore europeo, da cui prelevò le sue storie, per riambientarle nel nuovo contesto e trasformarle in altrettante figure emblematiche della modernità. È il caso dei racconti di questa raccolta, dove storie e leggende del vecchio mondo si mescolano alle paure e alle aspettative di una nazione 'in fieri', con uno stile che fonda, e per più versi anticipa, alcuni tra i motivi caratteristici della letteratura fantastica e della fantascienza.

With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also a master of satire, essay, travelogue, and folktale, as evidenced in this classic collection.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, "Every reader has a first book.... which, in early youth, first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was The Sketch Book of Washington Irving... The charm of The Sketch Book remains unbroken; the old fascination still lingers about it."

This new retelling of the classic Washington Irving tale of the Headless Horseman and his effect on Ichabod Crane features folk-art illustrations from Will Moses, the great-grandson of Grandma Moses. Reprint.

Richly detailed folk illustrations capturing the world of the eighteenth-century Hudson River valley accompany an entertaining version of Washington Irving's classic tale of romantic schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman.

The author oberves with a sharp eye the lives and customs of English, German, and Spanish gentry and villagers