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Revised Edition--- A NEW VERSION OF AMERICA'S CLASSIC TALE. ---- When the Ichabod Crane was chased out of Sleepy Hollow, he became American literatures first social outcast. A mild mannered scholar who had the audacity to admire the town beauty. But maybe that wasn't the real story. Maybe being an outcast was an elaborate ruse to fool the people of Sleepy Hollow. Less In this retelling of the Washington Irving tale, a new type of hero emerges from American history. Mild-mannered Revolutionary War veteran Andrew Stevens is a new agent for the Inspector General. While roaming the countryside investigating rumors of injustice, he discovers an escaped servant girl. She is disguising her looks behind dirt and rags. She tells him there's something terribly wrong in Sleepy Hollow; something she's ashamed to admit. Stevens enters the town with a new identity, Ichabod Crane, schoolmaster. "I have decided to travel to Sleepy Hollow incognito. They say a community can be judged by how it treats its weakest members. I will become the Judas goat. As I think back now on the outrages I experienced, I should have been less cavalier. One woman led me into this calamity, another led me out." Brom Bones and the local farmers bully him as a weakling, but Katrina, the town beauty, starts to see through his charade. Fifteen year old Phoebe and her best friend Ingrid develop a fascination with Stevens. Seen through the eyes of school girls with crushes, they secretly watch him and discover a very different type of person. On Halloween he discovers the town secret and rides into legend on the Hessian Bridge. "When I watched the Disney version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as a boy, I saw only a funny story, with Ichabod Crane as the goat. It never occurred to me that it was sending a message-a person who thinks too much is suspicious and subject to ridicule. I decided to write a new version, one in which a seemingly weak schoolmaster has a few surprises in store. It's a version that I hope is welcomed in the twenty-first century." A. Van Kraft------- See the characters on FACEBOOK. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sleepy-Hollow-The-Secret-Life-and-Legend-of-Ichabod-Crane-Amazoncom/123031531136798
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Sleepy Hollow: The Secret Life and Legend of Ichabod Crane
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