by Washington Irving · PUFFIN (PENG) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781858137858
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«Rip Van Winkle» is Washington Irving's collection of short stories, published by Puffin in paperback (152 pages, in English).
Rip Van Winkle falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes in a world he no longer recognizes; Ichabod Crane encounters the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow; and a ghostly bridegroom arrives at a wedding. Tales of fantasy and humour that portray rural America with irony and a sense of the marvellous.
This edition belongs to the Children's Classics series and brings together stories that Irving originally published from 1819 onwards.
For young readers approaching the classics of American literature for the first time.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
