Title: Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow
Description: In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
Subjects: Fiction, Short stories, Children's stories, American, History, Rip Van Winkle (Fictitious character), Juvenile fiction, Sleep, Teachers, Ghosts, Headless Horseman (Fictitious character), Change, Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.), Ghost stories, Foreign speakers, Study and teaching, English language, Readers (Adult), Fiction, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Van winkle, rip (fictitious character), fiction, New york (state), fiction, American Humorous stories, Shorthand, Benn Pitman, Texts, Fishes, Crustacea
Places: New York (State), Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.), Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Time periods: 1775-1865, 18th century