Audiobooks by Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s classic ghost story brilliantly performed. The superstitious Ichabod Crane, schoolmaster of Tarrytown, joins in rivalry for the hand of the delectable Katrina Van Tassel, the country bell. But will the powers that lurk in the dark hollow allow him to pursue his quarry unhindered? Or does the infamously renowned Galloping Hessian of the Hollow have another judgment to lay upon Ichabod? A humorous tale of the downfalls of superstition and the fabrications of an overactive imagination. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving paints his narrative landscape with a poetic eloquence that made the story his most beloved for over a century. Join the author now, and take a tremulous stroll through the haunted shadows of Sleepy Hollow.

Washington Irving (Author), Ian Slentz (Narrator)

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a particularly ghoulish fiend - the Headless Horseman - who is said to be the specter of a fallen soldier. Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with local hero Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt for the affections of the young, beautiful, and wealthy Katrina Van Tassel. Crane, considered an outsider by the community, takes part in an annual harvest party in a bid to win Katrina's hand in marriage. His scheme fails, however, and Crane has a run-in with Sleepy Hollow's most infamous resident.

Washington Irving (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator)

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The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection: Novels and Stories from Poe; M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Hen

The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection is a fully-indexed collection of classic ghost stories, read by three Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, and Washington Irving. - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James - x14 M.R. James Stories - Canon Alberics Scrap-Book; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; The Ash-tree; Number 13; Casting the Runes; Count Magnus; Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; A Warning to the Curious; A View From a Hill; A Neighbour's Landmark; The Uncommon Prayer-Book; Wailing Well; The Fenstanton Witch. - x4 Edgar Allan Poe Stories - Morella; Ligeia; The Mask of the Red Death; The Oval Portrait. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving - The Empty House, Algernon Blackwood - How It Happened, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Fullness of Life, Edith Wharton - The Signalman, Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Henry James, M.R. James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Washington Irving (Author), Jonathan Keeble, Juile Teal, Malk Williams (Narrator)

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The Sixty Year Dream: Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Level 1

Zhou Xuefa (Rip Van Winkle) is well loved by everyone in his town, everyone except his nagging wife. With his faithful dog Blackie, Zhou Xuefa spends his time playing with kids, helping neighbors, and discussing politics in the teahouse. One day after a bad scolding from his wife, he goes for a walk into the mountains and meets a mysterious old man. The man invites him into his mountain home for a meal and after drinking some wine, Zhou Xuefa falls into a deep sleep. He awakes to a time very different from what he once knew. Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know. Level 1 is intended for Chinese learners at an upper-elementary level. Most learners will be able to approach this book after one to two years of formal study, depending on the learner and program. This series is designed to combine simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand storyline which helps learners to expand their vocabularies and language comprehension abilities. The more they read, the better they will become at reading and grasping the Chinese language.

Washington Irving (Author), Xiuye Zhang (Narrator)

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Ichabod Crane, a lanky, lean, superstitious school master, arrives to teach the children of Sleepy Hollow. As he vies for the attention of the lovely Katrina Van Tassel, his rival for her attention is the town rowdy, Brom Bones. Brom tries to scare Ichabod away with local superstitions and ghost tales. Soon enough the ill-fated schoolmaster encounters a terrifying legend come to life -The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Meticulously adapted to stay true to the mood and flavor of the book Washington Irving is most famous for, this Colonial Radio presentation won the Charles Ogle Award for the Best Fantasy Production of 2005.

Jerry Robbins, Washington Irving (Author), Colonial Radio Players, Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players (Narrator)

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

First published in 1820, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" remains one of the most well known pieces of early American fiction still read today. Set in a quaint, New York village in the years following the Revolutionary War, Washington Irving's groundbreaking ghost story is at times chilling and delightfully conspiratorial in its dark humor. Ichabod Crane, a preciously fey school master competes with local tough Brom Bones for a wife only to succumb to a headless, supernatural rider ... Or does he? Nothing is at it seems in this classic of American fiction.

Washington Irving (Author), Steve Pemberton (Narrator)

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving (Author), B.J. Harrison (Narrator)

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Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Pride of the Village and The Spectre Bridegroom

Kindly Rip Van Winkle, loved by all in town, lives a quiet existence in a small village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains. Until one day, travelling in the mountains, he somehow falls asleep. Upon waking, he finds that twenty years have passed! For adults and children alike, Rip Van Winkle, is a charming novel that vividly captures a nostalgic period in American history. It is counted among the earliest examples of American fiction. Presented alongside this story is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving's story about the headless horseman, which explores the nature of legend, and The Pride of the Village, a mythic tale of love and loss, and The Spectre Bridegroom, along with its prequel, The Inn Kitchen.

Washington Irving (Author), Adam Sims (Narrator)

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Classic Scary Tales, Volume 1

Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies, Ghouls, Ghosts and Mad Scientists. Written by some of the greatest minds of all time, and narrated by award-winning narrator B.J. Harrison. Come listen Indian curses from a leprous albino. See a student of Alchemy take a secret draught of the elixir of life. Visit Count Dracula on Walpurgis Nacht. Follow Harry Houdini as he is kidnapped and trapped within the secret horrors of the Egyptian pyramids. Whether it’s the terror of a pit and a pendulum, a terrifying headless horseman, or midnight grave robbers, there is something here for everyone who wants to hear a classic scary story when the lights are down low. Stories include: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, The Mortal Immortal, by Mary Shelley, Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs, The Vampyre, by John Polidori, The Mark of the Beast, by Rudyard Kipling, The Hand, by Guy de Maupassant, The Body Snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Music of Eric Zahn, by H.P. Lovecraft, Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker, Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lot No. 249, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe, In Letters of Fire, by Gaston Leroux, Feathertop, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Imprisoned with the Pharoahs, by H.P. Lovecraft, The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oh Whistle, and I'll Come To You My Lad, by M. R. James, The Horla, by Guy de Maupassant.

Bram Stoker, John Polidori, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Various Authors, Various Authors, W.W. Jacobs, Washington Irving (Author), B.J. Harrison (Narrator)

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Rip Van Winkle

In New York's Catskill Mountains before the American Revolution, a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later without realizing how much time has passed. Unaware that the Revolutionary War has taken place, he must come to terms with the changes he encounters. Washington Irving wrote ÄúRip Van WinkleÄù while living in England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., alongside his other famous tale, ÄúThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow.Äù Irving later admitted that "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." Since its publication in 1819, the story has become part of American pop culture and has been adapted many times for stage, film, radio, and television.

Washington Irving (Author), Johnny Heller (Narrator)

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Cuentos de la Alhambra

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Esta original novela entremezcla una serie de narraciones o cuentos con el libro de viajes y el diario. El protagonista e hilo conductor es el propio autor, Washington Irving, que tras su llegada a España inicia un recorrido por tierras andaluzas que le llevan a Granada. Allí queda extasiado por la majestuosidad de la Alhambra en cuyas habitaciones se hospedará. Durante su estancia conoce a varios personajes, entre los que hay que destacar al que se convierte en su criado, Mateo Jiménez, que le acompañarán y le darán noticia de esos cuentos y leyendas que giran en torno al monumento y su pasado árabe.

Washington Irving (Author), Miguel González (Narrator)

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

In the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane arrives to educate the children of the region. This lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut fancies the idea of marrying the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer, but there is a problem with his plan. Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, has already set his heart on marrying her. This romantic rivalry climaxes one autumn night with the appearance of the legendary Headless Horseman, allegedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head to a cannonball during the Revolutionary War. Every night he rides through the woods to the scene of the battle in search of his head. Since this story's first appearance in 1820, generations of readers, young and old, have thrilled to the headless horseman galloping through the haunted woods of Sleepy Hollow. The rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated courtship of Katrina Van Tassel has become a classic ghost story.

Washington Irving (Author), Anthony Heald (Narrator)

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