The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 historical fantasy and mythic fiction story collection by Washington Irving. It takes readers to New York, State and Catskill Mountains Region, N.Y. in 1775–1865. Characters include Leonard Everett Fisher. Key subjects include ghosts, christmas, Ichabod Crane and Folklore.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.1 out of 5 from 24 ratings, and 296 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 1,017 editions across 30 languages. On Project Gutenberg it was downloaded 31,979 times in the last 30 days.

At about 39 pages, most readers finish it in about 45 minutes. It is in the public domain, so you can read it free on Project Gutenberg or listen to the 1 h 23 min LibriVox audiobook.