The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings, by Washington Irving, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
From tigers in a South London suburb to retired Victorian police inspectors investigating train based thefts, from collectors of poets at Shadwell to life-changing decisions in Canonbury, by way of an art installation that defies the boundaries of a gallery, Stations takes a sideways look through the windows of the Overground train, at life as it is, or might be, lived beside the rails: quirky, humorous and sometimes horrifying.
'On days of combat, the crew would mix gunpowder with their liquor'Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome pr cis of impossible worlds or imaginary books.
Poetry and short stories are the makeup of this insightful book; the goal of the author is to inspire and cause the reader to think upon the stories that were read and decide how he/she would have taken action if standing in the shoes of each character in this book.