Rip Van Winkle, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving
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- Rip van Winkle is a man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day, he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of strange folk, he settles down under a tree and falls asleep.
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- Myth & Legend Told As Fiction
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Release Date:
05 February 2009
Rip van Winkle is an amiable man. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village to find that not only is his wife dead but war and revolution have changed many things.
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