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Rip Van Winkle

Printed in Gregg shorthand.

by Washington Irving & Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French, German, Polish, Tamil
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is a short story published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager who encounters mysterious strangers in the Catskill Mountains, drinks their liquor, and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens, twenty years have passed and everything has changed—his village is transformed, his friends are gone, and he has slept through the American Revolution. Now an elderly stranger in his own home, Rip must navigate a world he no longer recognizes and reconcile with the life that continued without him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the subject metadata.

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  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

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Printed in Gregg shorthand.

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1914The Gregg Publishing Co.English—Public

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2019-12-20Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 61 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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