One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By WASHINGTON IRVING Condensation by MABEL HERBERT URNER IN a sequestered cove of the Hudson lies the drowsy valley of Sleepy Hollow--once…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Ichabod

However, it was not only these phantoms of the night that disturbed his peace, for his days were haunted by the most bewitching of all…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Gunpowder

In quaking terror Ichabod dashed ahead, but the unknown followed close. Then the moonlight, through a rifting cloud, revealed the headless…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Irving

The old country wives, however, maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by the headless horseman. And many gruesome tales of…

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