Rip Van Winkle is a short story by Washington Irving. It follows a good-natured man in an old Dutch village who wanders into the mountains, meets mysterious figures, and sleeps for twenty years, waking to a changed world. A gentle, atmospheric tale of time, memory, and change.
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RIP VAN WINKLE
ARTHUR RACKHAM’S ILLUSTRATIONS THE ALLIES’ FAIRY BOOK 6s. net A CHRISTMAS CAROL By CHARLES DICKENS 6s. net MOTHER GOOSE, THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES 6s. net ARTHUR RACKHAM’S BOOK OF PICTURES 21s. net AESOP’S FABLES A New Translation by V. S. VERNON JONES, with an Introduction by G. K. CHESTERTON 6s. net THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE Poems of Childhood by A. C. Swinburne 10s. 6d. net CINDERELLA Retold by C. S. EVANS 7s. 6d. net THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG By RICHARD WAGNER. Translated by MARGARET ARMOUR I. THE RHINEGOLD AND THE VALKYRIE II. SIEGFRIED AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS 21s. net each UNDINE By DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ Adapted from the German by W. L. COURTNEY. 10s. 6d. RIP VAN WINKLE By WASHINGTON IRVING. With 24 selected plates. 10s. 6d. net A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 21s. net ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND By LEWIS CARROLL. With a Proem by AUSTIN DOBSON. 6s. net RIP VAN WINKLE Complete Edition. By WASHINGTON IRVING. 21s. net
THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OF MIRTH AND MARVEL By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq. 21s. net LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
“He used to console himself by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages, which held its sessions before a small inn.”
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Title page RIP VAN WINKLE BY · WASHINGTON IRVING ILLUSTRATED · BY ARTHUR · RACKHAM LONDON: WILLIAM · HEINEMANN NEW · YORK: DOUBLEDAY · PAGE · & Cọ
Complete Edition, with 51 Illustrations in Colour. First published (15s. net) September 1905. New Impressions January 1907; August 1908; May 1909; November 1910. Cheaper Issue, with 24 Illustrations in Colour and many new Illustrations in the Text October 1916. New Impression 1917, 1919.
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