Hillary Kelly, writing in The Atlantic, traces American Girl from Pleasant Rowland’s history-rich dolls to Mattel’s struggling brand. You will learn why the books mattered, how Bratz and ‘tweens’ reshaped girlhood, and why revenue reportedly fell 61 percent.

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0:00 Opening
0:14 A Childhood Catalog
3:18 A Midlife Crisis
6:26 Rowland’s Big Idea
8:00 Rescuing Girlhood
13:18 Growing Up Faster
15:03 Heritage Buried
17:54 The Anniversary Bet
20:50 A Needle to Thread
22:50 Closing

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Listen to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, a full English audiobook with a gothic fireplace and thunderstorm ambience.

In the haunted valley of Sleepy Hollow, schoolmaster Ichabod Crane pursues Katrina Van Tassel while his rival Brom Bones and tales of the Headless Horseman unsettle his imagination. An autumn gathering leads to a fearful midnight ride in this classic American ghost story.

STORY SECTIONS
00:00 Sleepy Hollow and Ichabod Crane
16:19 Ichabod’s Superstitions and Ambitions
34:06 A Rival for Katrina
50:33 The Van Tassel Gathering
1:08:23 The Midnight Encounter and Aftermath

These sections are listening guides within the continuous story. The complete reading includes the Postscript.

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A complete, unabridged audiobook of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1820), read in English by Bob Neufeld. Turn down the lights on Halloween night and listen to the original American ghost story, about one hour and twenty-one minutes of reading after a short on-screen introduction.

About the story: Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783 and became one of the first American authors to win fame in Europe. He wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow while living in England, and it appeared in 1820 in his collection called The Sketch Book. The tale is set in the Hudson Valley, on the eastern shore of the river near the village of Tarrytown, where Dutch families had farmed for generations. There the lanky, superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane courts the wealthy Katrina Van Tassel, faces his rival Brom Bones, and rides home through the haunted woods at midnight, where the Headless Horseman is said to ride. In Irving’s story the horseman is the ghost of a German soldier whose head was lost to a cannonball in the Revolutionary War. The channel’s short introduction at the start of this video, shown as text over the painting, gives this background before the reading begins.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction: Irving, the Hudson Valley and the Headless Horseman
0:55 LibriVox Introduction and the Opening Verse
1:41 The Valley of Sleepy Hollow
5:05 The Legend of the Headless Horseman
8:05 Ichabod Crane, the Schoolmaster
18:55 Winter Evenings and Ghost Stories
21:47 Katrina Van Tassel
30:49 Brom Bones, the Rival
40:55 Ichabod Prepares for the Party
44:20 Part Two: The Ride to the Van Tassel Farm
48:14 The Feast at the Van Tassel Farm
54:05 Ghost Stories by the Fire
1:00:38 The Party Breaks Up
1:02:31 The Ride Home at Midnight
1:06:42 The Horseman Appears
1:09:38 The Chase to the Bridge
1:14:21 The Morning After
1:19:36 Postscript, Found in the Handwriting of Mister Knickerbocker

Reader and recording:
Reader: Bob Neufeld, for LibriVox (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Version 2). Book coordinator: Bob Neufeld. Meta coordinator: J. M. Smallheer. Proof listener: Naf.
LibriVox catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-by-washington-irving-2/
LibriVox does not endorse this channel and is not affiliated with it.
Recording source: Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/sleepyhollow_1206_librivox
License: Public Domain Mark 1.0. LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the United States.

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Credits and disclosure:
Book: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1820), in the public domain.
Artwork: “The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane” by John Quidor (1858), Smithsonian American Art Museum, in the public domain (the painter died in 1881).
Original work by this channel: the written introduction, the animation (slow camera movement, drifting fog, moonlight, falling leaves, fireflies and a distant flash of lightning, drawn in-house with code on top of the painting), and the English captions, which were timed to the recording and corrected against the Project Gutenberg text (eBook number 41).
Disclosure: the narration is a real human recording. No synthetic voice, no voice cloning and no added music were used. The animation is altered from the original painting, so the altered-content label is switched on.

Timeless Shelf Audio brings public-domain classics to you as full, single-video audiobooks.

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