The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
| By: | Washington Irving |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781976466168.0 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781627935999 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina 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. The Headless Horseman, is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball, and "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head," though the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom in disguise.