Books with title The land of Rip Van Winkle

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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.

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, unabridged republishing of a classic tale. "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819. 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." The story's title character is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.

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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.

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Excerpt from Rip Van WinkleThe object of this short introduction, is to try and impress on the reader, that the story he is about to relate is a reality; and the note added at the end of the story is intended to produce the same effect, or rather to add weight to the first declaration.In preparing the following edition of Rip Van Winkle, free use has been made of several works, to the authors of which the compiler's thanks are due.Teachers and pupils who desire to obtain more informa tion in regard to Irving and his writings, should get the works referred to at close of the short sketch of Irving's life. Some capital hints to the teacher are to be found in a little work (containing six of Irving's sketches, and published by Ginn, Heath 8: Co., of Boston,) to which the compiler is greatly indebted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.