In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
A collection of five stories by American author Washington Irving, including the title work about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes to a much-changed world.
Reprints over fifty color plates created by Arthur Rackman as illustrations for the 1905 edition of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," and includes the text of the story about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up to find a very different world.
Presents sixty-one short fiction stories by eighteenth-century American author Washington Irving, and includes an introductory essay which provides a critical discussion of Irving's life.
An idle man falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains only to wake up twenty years later, bewildered as to how life passed him by. 'Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
