Sure to enchant art lovers and Rackham devotees, this edition of all of Rackham's 51 full-page illustrations, plus Irving's complete story, will delight fantasy enthusiasts of all ages.
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
A Study Guide for Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; ...
Nearly two hundred years later, the story endures, continuing to capture the imaginations of readers young and old. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Then some information will be given on Irving as a romantic writer and the background of the tale of “Rip Van Winkle”. After that several romantic features will be highlighted within short analyses of parts of the tale.
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Sewanee the University of the South, course: ENGL 377: American Literature I, language: English, abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der ...
In this distinctive collection, historians and literary scholars come together to reassess Irving’s imaginative world and complex cultural legacy.
In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story,...