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The story of Rip Van Winkle by acclaimed author Washington Irving is a literary classic that lives on and is being retold and adapted on a daily basis. Rip Van Winkle is the main character and he lives in the Catskill Mountains. On a journey into the mountains he falls asleep and returns decades later to a future that he doesn't recognize and that doesn't recognize him. Read this book and take the time to go on this journey of discovery with him. You will be glad you did.

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Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle is a classic short story by celebrated writer Washington Irving. The stories protagonist, Rip Van Winkle, is an American Revolutionary War era Dutch-American villager who, while in the Catskill mountains, miraculously travels forward in time to discover that he is decades into a future that he doesn't recognize. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." "Rip Van Winkle" is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains where Rip Van Winkle lives, a Dutch-American villager. One autumn day, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging. He hears his name called out and sees a man wearing antiquated Dutch clothing; he is carrying a keg up the mountain and requires help. Together, the men and Wolf proceed to a hollow in which Rip discovers the source of thunderous noises: a group of ornately dressed, silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins.

Do you enjoy classic literature in easy-to-carry paperback? Then you'll love Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving! This short story was published in 1819 and takes place in New York's Catskill Mountains. The time period is before and after the American Revolutionary War. Aren't you excited to read this short classic? Perhaps you read Rip van Winkle in school as a youth or maybe this is your first time reading Washington Irving's masterpiece or maybe you're a teacher buying the book for your children's literature class. Either way, enjoy Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle book today!

"Rip Van Winkle" is considered by some critics to be one of the finest early American short stories, is a short story by American autor Irving Washington, published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. Although the story is set in New York´s Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Catskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the cival war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.

Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but, sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.

This early American tale follows the likeable but lazy Rip Van Winkle into the mysterious Catskill Mountains where he meets a band of odd fellows playing a game of ninepins. Rip falls into a deep sleep for 20 years. When he wakes up, he finds that his home is a very different place indeed. This story is a wonderful reminder about making the most of your life.

Irving, Washington ; Arthur Rackham (illustrator); RIP VAN WINKLE; William Heinemann; 1917; Later Printing. original binding of brown boards with decorative gilt lettering and the image of a spider web between tree branches in darker brown. beautifully illustrated book with 24 wonderful colour plates by Arthur Rackham with tissue guards with printed legends, pictorial endpapers.