睡谷傳說：英倫見聞錄（簡體書）

本書收錄了包括包括《睡谷傳說》、《瑞普·凡·溫克爾》、《鬼新郎》在內的多篇華盛頓?歐文經典短篇小說。《睡谷傳說》最早收錄于《英倫見聞錄》中，是歐文最著名的短篇小說之一，講述了在睡谷附近一個美麗的村子里，鄉村教師伊卡博德·克萊恩偶遇“無頭騎士”的故事。在這個故事中，歐文以極富詩意的語言描寫了幽靜的鄉村生活和善良淳樸的居民，從而反襯出城市的喧囂和資產階級的卑微齷齪。

華盛頓·歐文，美國作家，被譽為美國文學之父。1820年出版的《英倫見聞錄》開創了美國短篇小說的傳統，奠定了他在美國文學史上的地位。他向往田園生活和古代遺風，他的作品大多取材于歐洲的古老傳說，充滿神秘奇幻色彩。

THE AUTHOR’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF
THE VOYAGE
ROSCOE
THE WIFE
RIP VAN WINKLE
ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA
RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND
THE BROKEN HEART
THE ART OF BOOKMAKING
A ROYAL POET
THE COUNTRY CHURCH
THE WIDOW AND HER SON
A SUNDAY IN LONDON
THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP
THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE THE AUTHOR’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF
THE VOYAGE
ROSCOE
THE WIFE
RIP VAN WINKLE
ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA
RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND
THE BROKEN HEART
THE ART OF BOOKMAKING
A ROYAL POET
THE COUNTRY CHURCH
THE WIDOW AND HER SON
A SUNDAY IN LONDON
THE BOAR’S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP
THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE
RURAL FUNERALS
THE INN KITCHEN
THE SPECTER BRIDEGROOM
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
CHRISTMAS
THE STAGECOACH
CHRISTMAS EVE
CHRISTMAS DAY
THE CHRISTMAS DINNER
LONDON ANTIQUES
LITTLE BRITAIN
STRATFORD-ON-AVON
TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER
PHILIP OF POKANOKET
JOHN BULL
THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE
THE ANGLER
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
L’ENVOY

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It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by everyone who resides there for a time. However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative – to dream dreams and see apparitions.
I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud; for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that population, manners, and customs remain fixed; while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, “tarried,” in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
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