Rip Van Wincle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

I. About the Novel

"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."^[1] The story's protagonist, also called Rip Van Winkle, is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during the Halloween season.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

Works Cited （参考文献）

http://video.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&p=Rip%20Van%20Winkle%20and%20The%20Legend%20of%20Sleepy%20Hollow

http://video.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&p=Rip%20Van%20Winkle%20and%20The%20Legend%20of%20Sleepy%20Hollow

 

III. About the Author

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This article is about the writer. For the cricketer, see Irving Washington.

Washington Irving
Daguerreotype of Washington Irving (modern copy by Mathew Brady, original by John Plumbe)
Born	(1783-04-03)April 3, 1783 New York City, New York
Died	November 28, 1859(1859-11-28) (aged 76) Sunnyside, Tarrytown, New York
Occupation	Short story writer, essayist, biographer, magazine editor, diplomat
Literary movement	Romanticism
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Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819–20. He continued to publish regularly — and almost always successfully — throughout his life, and just eight months before his death (at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York), completed a five-volume biography of George Washington.
Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also admired by some European writers, including Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Francis Jeffrey, and Charles Dickens. As America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, Irving advocated for writing as a legitimate profession, and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character

The main charactar is Rip Van Winkle

 

B. Reaction Point - setting

Rip Van Winkle is in american small town.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' s is in Tarry town.

C. Reaction Point - them
         This story's them is when the man sleep, many things changed.
         The man is stealed the beautiful woman and became ghost.

D. My General Opinion
I read this book for the first time. And it was easy to read.
I read this book and felt I was scared.
Because when Rip Van Winkle woke up, it past 20 years,and changed many thing.
I think it is horror element.