Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Easy to Read Classics

Washington Irving

Feb 2012 · Bring the Classics to Life Book 6 · EDCON Publishing Group

About this ebook

Bring The Classics To Life Series. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Readers will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. Knowledge of Classics is a cultural necessity and these will improve fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through a high Interest / low readability format. Each eBookis divided into 10 short high quality illustrated chapters - Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary - Has been measured by the Fry Readability Formula - Defines and uses in context new vocabulary, prior to each chapter.

About the author

Born April 3, 1783 in New York City, Washington was the last of eleven children. He was named after our first President, George Washington. Although he loved to read, especially poetry, Washington did not like school and he quit when he became sixteen. It was at this time that he began his career writing stories for the New York Morning Chronicle. He fell in love with a young girl, Matilda Hoffman, and they became engaged to be married. When she fell ill and died, Washington decided to remain a bachelor for the remainder of his life. To help overcome his grief, he began writing more and more. He traveled to Europe, spending many years there, where he continued to write. Some of his books are The Humorists, Tales of a Traveller and A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, to name just a few. Returning to the United States in 1832, Washington Settled in New York on the Hudson River near Sleepy Hollow. He named his estate ÒSunnysideÓ where he remained until his death in 1859. He is buried near Sleepy Hollow.