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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Original publication
1820
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
77
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Horror, Poetic
Translated from
English

Book summary

Ichabod Crane, an ambitious and gullible schoolteacher, arrives in a village haunted by a disturbing legend: that of a headless horseman. Drawn to a wealthy heiress, he tries to assert himself against a stronger rival. But the strange stories that surround the area begin to trouble his mind. Between superstition and rivalry, tension grows until a decisive night. The author blends humor and the supernatural in a short, iconic tale that plays with fear and imagination.

The plot

Alone on the road, at midnight. A big party has just ended at a rich farmer’s house. The guests have been telling ghost stories.

The world of the book

A quiet valley near New York. The story takes place around 1790, on the banks of the Hudson River, north of New York. Sleepy Hollow is a little valley among the hills, one of the quietest places in the whole world.

The author

A hoax in the New York newspapers. Born in New York in 1783, he was named after General George Washington.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.

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