Rip Van Winkle and other stories
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Rip Van Winkle and other stories
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Rip Van Winkle and other stories
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Puffin classics
Summary
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some mysterious mountain men and tastes a strange brew with unexpected effects. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" recounts schoolmaster Ichabod Crane's dream of marrying a wealthy farmer's daughter. But Ichabod's ambitions take a sudden turn with his terrifying late-night encounter with the dreaded Headless Horseman. In addition to these famous fables by Washington Irving, America's first popular author, the collection includes two other short stories: "The Spectre Bridegroom," a tale of an arranged marriage that comes to a chilling conclusion; and "Mountjoy," in which a bookish young man discovers romance and learns a real-life lesson
Target audience
juvenile
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- Fantasy fiction
- Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Ghosts -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Short stories
- Ghost stories
- Children's stories, American
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- Fiction
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- Fantasy fiction
- Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Ghosts -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Short stories
- Ghost stories
- Children's stories, American
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (State) -- Fiction
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- Fiction
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- Is Part Of1