Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is a short story published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager who encounters mysterious strangers in the Catskill Mountains, drinks their liquor, and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens, twenty years have passed and everything has changed—his village is transformed, his friends are gone, and he has slept through the American Revolution. Now an elderly stranger in his own home, Rip must navigate
a world he no longer recognizes and reconcile with the life that continued without him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939 |
| Title | Rip Van Winkle |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle |
| Credits |
Produced by Sue Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 62.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Subject | New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 60976 |
| Release Date | Dec 20, 2019 |
| Last Update | Oct 17, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 7080 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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