Rip Van Winkle

A short story by Washington Irving, presented in an illustrated edition with color plates by Arthur Rackham. It follows Rip Van Winkle, a good-natured, henpecked villager living in a Dutch settlement near New York's Catskill mountains before the American Revolution.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›American›Ghosts, horror, and the uncanny

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Teens›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›American