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Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving
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Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories

by Washington Irving

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I've only read 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' from this collection. I hadn't read it since Jr. High but, it was nice to go back to it as an adult. We recently discussed this as a library book talk. Fun to discuss older American authors. ( )
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

Rip's a good natured loser, trying to be happy despite a bad marriage and major poverty...until the day he helps a stranger in need, winds up at a weird picnic in the woods, parties too hardy, falls asleep-

Because when Rip wakes up, the Earth has-changed. Everyone and everything he knows has-vanished. Wife, family, dog, home, even his country-gone. Rip's terrified, trapped in a new world, pulled out of place, torn out of time...

But what seems to be the gods' cruelest joke-might be their greatest gift...

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