La Légende de Sleepy Hollow

Name: La Légende de Sleepy Hollow
Author: Washington Irving

Titre anglais: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

par Washington Irving · lecture graduée

5 chapitres
7 793 mots
environ 61 min

Dans une vallée tranquille au bord de la rivière Hudson, les gens racontent l'histoire d'un Cavalier sans Tête qui chevauche la nuit. Le maître d'école maigre et nerveux, Ichabod Crane, veut épouser la riche Katrina Van Tassel, mais après une fête un soir d'automne, il doit rentrer seul à travers Sleepy Hollow.

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On the east side of the Hudson River, in the state of New York, the river grew very wide. The old Dutch sailors called this wide part the Tappan Zee. On its shore stood a small market town. Its name was Tarry Town. The women of the nearby farms gave it this name, people said. On market days their husbands liked to tarry, or stay too long, at the village inn. The wives had to wait for them, and they were not pleased.

About two miles from Tarry Town, there was a little valley between high hills. It was one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small stream ran through it. Its soft sound could send a person to sleep. Now and then a bird called, or a woodpecker tapped on a tree. Apart from that, everything was still.

On a summer day at noon, the woods were completely silent. If a hunter fired his gun at a squirrel, the sound rolled around the hills for a long time. It was almost frightening. A tired man from the busy world could sit under those trees and dream his life away.