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of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle
and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
WASHINGTON IRVING
Level f
Retold by Margaret Marphy
Series Eaitors:Andy Hopkins and jocelyn Potter Introduction
“Lato 10 the mountains” Rip said t0 Wolf “E don't wont
te soe my aif ad Fd tn ste 20 he”
One chy Rip Van Winkle, a farmer, goes to the
‘mountains with his dog, Wolf-There he meets some old
mea. Who are these strange men? Why are they there?
And what are they drinking?
‘The Legend of Sleepy Hlllow is about a teacher,
Ichabod Crane. He likes listening to stories about
sghoss. But are there ghosts in Sleepy Hollow? And is
Ichabod going to see & ghost?
‘The stories in this book are about people—and
about ghosts, There area lot of questions in the stories,
but not many answers
‘Washington Irving (1783-1859) is a very fmous
American writer. He lived in New York, but later he
worked in Europe for seventeen years. Then be went
back to the United States and lived near the Hudson
River
In the years 1770 to 1810, people came to Amevica
fiom Holland and lived in the mountains near the
Huson River. The stories in this book are about these
people
‘At dha time, America was British. The king was King
George II, Then, in. 1775, Britain and America started
a war, The war finished in 1783, and there was a new
‘county—the United States of America.
