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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Start date: July 1, 2026

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The Horror of it All

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Mar 18, 2017 Dan | The Ancient Reader rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literary-fiction, journeys, fantasy-and-magical-realism

The stories (Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, etc.) are all good. Everyone should read Irving's stories. The travel essays, on the other hand, were nothing but snooze-worthy. They were so bad and so numerous that they overbalanced the stories for me and threw my overall rating of the book to only two stars. ...more

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Sep 27, 2014 Chrissie rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2014-read, shorts, classics, magic

Here is a link to audiobooks that are currently free to Audible members: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... This is one of them.

This one WAS worth listening to because of the writing by Washington Irving.The ghost part didn't do a thing to me, but I enjoyed the description of New England landscape in the fall. ...more

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Oct 11, 2019 Karen rated it liked it

I had seen a movie version of Sleepy Hollow years ago, but I hadn't read this short story until now. I loved the descriptions of rural areas around Sleepy Hollow, and I like that in the end you really don't know what happened. ...more

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Sep 28, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was ok

Shelves: short-stories

I had high expectations for this one and I think that it suffered for it. I have seen movies at times long after everyone else in the world ... movies which everyone raves about ... and I end up disappointed. I think my reaction to this story is similar to my reaction to those movies. They simply cannot live up to my hopes.

I wasn't scared or spooked. I wasn't shocked. I wasn't fascinated or even intrigued. There was no surprise. ...more

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