The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a timeless American classic that even if you’ve never read it, you’ve probably consumed some of it by cultural osmosis. It concerns a love triangle between itinerant school teacher Ichabod Crane; the lovely Katrina van Tassel, daughter of a wealthy planter; and local big-man-on-campus Brom van Brunt, who goes by the baller nickname of Bram Bones. The setting is rural New York State, in the years following the American Revolution. This sketch gives you a good idea of Irving’s excellent powers of description. He masterfully renders his setting. Embedded in these descriptions is a sense of the vastness of the wilderness and how its trackless depth gave rise to superstitions, to tales of spooks and goblins and galloping Hessians lacking heads. The legend of a sleepy hollow book is not a scary story. It only borders on the spooky. A thrilling book every mystery lover should experience.