The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.


The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. was published in seven installments between 1819-1820. Best known stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle are featured separately in our collection for your convenience.

"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men’s fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.” —BURTON."

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The Legend of Sleep Hollow

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Rip Van Winkle


Table of Contents

The Author's Account of Himself

The Voyage

Roscoe

The Wife

Rip Van Winkle

English Writers on America

Rural Life in England

The Broken Heart

The Art of Book-Making

A Royal Poet

The Country Church

The Widow and Her Son

A Sunday in London

The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap

The Mutability of Literature

Rural Funerals

The Inn Kitchen

The Spectre Bridegroom

Westminster Abbey

Christmas

The Stage-Coach

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

The Christmas Dinner

London Antiques

Little Britain

Stratford-on-Avon

Traits of Indian Character

Philip of Pokanoket

John Bull

The Pride of the Village

The Angler

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

L'Envoy

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