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The seduction of water

2003
Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier.

Rip Van Winkle

1988
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.

Old Bob's gift

life in the catskill mountains of the 1850s
1996
While working in a sawmill in the Catskill Mountains of New York in the 1850s, fourteen-year-old Matt not only learns craftsmanship but also valuable lessons about life.

Wake up, Rip Van Winkle!

1993
Two versions of the classic tale, Rip Van Winkle; the original and one from his daughter's point of view.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, Rip Van Winkle
1995
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.

Rip Van Winkle

1999
A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

Rip Van Winkle

2011
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.

Rip Van Winkle

1995
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.

Rip Van Winkle

1991
An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.

Washington Irving's The legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, Rip Van Winkle
2010
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.

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