by Washington Irving · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582030466
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«Rip van Winkle and Other Stories» is an anthology of classic tales by Washington Irving, published by Longman in paperback (42 pages, in English).
The volume brings together three tales by Washington Irving: «Rip van Winkle», about a man who sleeps for twenty years; «The Spectre Bridegroom», a ghost story; and «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow», a rural tale with supernatural encounters. The adaptation uses controlled vocabulary.
This edition belongs to the Longman Classics series (level 2); it is adapted by D. K. Swan and Michael West, with illustrations by Terry Gabbey. It includes comprehension questions.
A title intended for students of English as a second language (ESL) and young readers starting out with adapted classics.
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.
