The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, credited to Washington Irving, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Read by Bob Neufeld "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. It was based on a German folktale set in the Dutch culture of Post-Revolutionary War in New York State. With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", it is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Author credits: Washington Irving
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 1:21:50

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• ghost stories
• mystery
• Ichabod Crane
• headless horseman
• folktales

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 — 43:26
2. 02 - Part 2 — 38:25

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