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The classic stories, carefully edited for modern readers to allow for easier reading.

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

The story of Rip Van Winkle by acclaimed author Washington Irving is a literary classic that lives on and is being retold and adapted on a daily basis. Rip Van Winkle is the main character and he lives in the Catskill Mountains. On a journey into the mountains he falls asleep and returns decades later to a future that he doesn't recognize and that doesn't recognize him. Read this book and take the time to go on this journey of discovery with him. You will be glad you did.

A collection of short stories written by Washington Irving.

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Seminar paper from the year 1973 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (English Department), course: English 750, Early American Literature, Professor Lowance, Fall Semester, 1973, language: English, abstract: Max Frisch novel "Stiller" was influenced by the American tale "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. Irving himself was influenced by a German source. In this work, the author tries to untangle the interwoven works of Frisch and Irving. In the work the author singles out "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving and expound it in a new with the assistance of a reverberation which this tale has had in the writings of the modern Swiss German author Max Frisch. The author is convinced that to draw certain conclusions from the influence a given work of literature exerts on later works of literature is as legitimate in literary interpretation as to infer anything from the use to which an author puts his source material. The author also believes that Frisch's modern exploitation of the "Rip Van Winkle" story may shed as much new light on Irving's achievement as the comparison between "Rip Van Winkle" and its German source in the tale of "Peter Klaus, the Goatherd" has done.

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