Irving's talent for description reminds me a bit of Stevenson's, however, the story lacks the depth of something like Jekyll and Hyde and Irving's prose tends to get away from him when compared to the tighter efforts of similar work. Sleepy Hollow began to wear thin near the halfway mark of the story.
The real value here is in the richly colored depiction of early American life in the Tappan Zee area and the Northern European folkloric influences Irving adapts for this story.
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