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.
Famous for his tall-tales, Rip Van Winkle is hardly believed when he returns from a walk after twenty years and tells all the villagers why it took so long for him to come home. Simultaneous.
Four stories: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Spectre Bridegroom, and The Moor's Legacy.
“We adorn their graves,” says Evelyn, in his Sylva, “with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been Compared in Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties, whose roots being buried in dishonor, ...
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving - "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819.
This edition of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle preserves the original story of the well-known character while restoring it to modern standards.
The classic American short story, “Rip Van Winkle,” was originally published in author Washington Irving’s book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., alongside his other famous tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Since its ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
The famous story of Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, who has a run-in with some mischievous, bearded dwarfs who give him a drink that puts him to sleep for over twenty years.This edition features illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, including ...
In this 1819 classic of colonial life, a henpecked villager goes rambling through the Catskills, meets mysterious strangers with a powerful liquor, and awakens 20 years later to a changed world.
'Rip Van Winkle' (1819) is a short story by Washington Irving.It is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Here in this richly illustrated book for young readers, Rip Van Winkle_s story is told using easy-to-read language that engages the young mind and introduces them to this much-loved American legend.
... Sten og Høj og Mose, indtil de naaede Broen. Men da forvandledes Hestmanden pludselig til et Skelet, kastede gamle ... sælsomme Tildragelser, der havde fundet Sted i hans Hjemland Connecticut, og skrækkelige Syner, han havde iagttaget ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
When it was first produced in 1855 at Niblo's Garden, New York, librettist's J. Howard Wainwright's "Rip Van Winkle" became the first original American operetta produced on a Broadway stage.