The Legends of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Here are two favorite stories by “the father of American literature”, Washington Irving. Ichabod Crane, the hapless schoolmaster of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” faces the terror of the Headless Horseman, and the henpecked husband of “Rip Van Winkle” rises from a 20-year sleep to find a world vastly changed.