by Washington Irving · Palas Atenea Ediciones, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478170494
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«Rip Van Winkle» is the short story by Washington Irving published by Palas Atenea Ediciones in paperback (64 pages, in a bilingual English-Spanish edition).
It tells the story of Rip Van Winkle, a peaceful and lazy man who lives in a village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains. To escape his wife, he flees to the woods, where he comes across some mysterious bowlers. After drinking with them, he falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later, in a village he no longer recognizes.
The tale was originally published in 1819 as part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.; this edition belongs to the Bilingües collection and includes an introduction, translation and notes.
For intermediate-level English students who want to practise reading with a classic in a bilingual edition.
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.
