Skip to content
AURELUNE

The wider archive · Enduring classics

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane courts a farmer's daughter in a sleepy Hudson valley town, until a ride home past the haunted bridge.
  • Washington Irving (1783–1859)
  • First published 1820
  • Short story
  • Available online · Awaiting physical preservation
ReadWhere it came fromThe wider archive

In Minecraft

3 volumes

The whole text, cut into books a Minecraft shelf can hold, at chapter breaks where possible. A volume counts as held once copies are printed and it is on a central library shelf.

  1. Sleepy Hollow 1/3Not printed

    100 pages · no copies printed yet

  2. Sleepy Hollow 2/3Not printed

    100 pages · no copies printed yet

  3. Sleepy Hollow 3/3Not printed

    58 pages · no copies printed yet

Read

Sleepy Hollow 1/3

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut
Next volume

Provenance

Where this text came from, and why it is free to share

Source

First printed in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number 6 (New York, March 1820).

Transcribed text: ebook 41 at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41, released there 2008-06-27 (that is the transcription's date, not the book's). Copied 2026-10-30. Its own record says: “Public domain in the USA.”

Checksums (SHA-256): source file 94e2ce771554806d41a14ac8775d2e5ef2e0a7310f13f7661bcfa4997ded1e3b; prepared text 7a66fab70fa38fe61228b067190323fdf7def823ae47817b4f537fba02eb55ad.

Changes to the text

  • The source's header, licence, footer and production credits were removed.
  • Line breaks inside paragraphs were joined; paragraphs and short-line blocks such as contents lists were kept.
  • Underscores marking italics were removed.
  • Extra spaces were collapsed.
  • No illustrations were imported; captions stay as text.

Rights

  • First published before 1931: public domain in the United States.
  • The author died before 1956: out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years.

Public domain in the United States (first published 1820); the author died in 1859, so also out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years. Not reviewed country by country beyond that.

Text only. The source's licence, trademark and boilerplate are removed, so the archive does not use the source's name as a mark; the source is cited as provenance.

Reviewed 2026-10-30, batch seed-2026-10. Archive editions credit the original author; Aurelune printed them and claims no rights in the text.