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Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle

Washington, Irving
Saguez, Edinson

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ISBN10: 1534855580
ISBN13: 9781534855588
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 22 2016
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. Another gift!!!

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