Download or read book Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Download or read book The Land of Rip Van Winkle written by Annie Eliza Pidgeon Searing and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rip Van Winkle written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rip Van Winkle s Travels in Foreign Lands written by Daniel Clarke Eddy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book American Lands and Letters The Mayflower to Rip Van Winkle written by Donald Grant Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [V.1] The Mayflower to Rip Van Winkle.--[v. 2] Leatherstocking to Poe's "Raven."
Download or read book Rip Van Winkle Coloring Book written by Washington Irving and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, along with the complete text of this classic story are 30 Rackham illustrations rendered for coloring. Children can make their first thrilling acquaintance with the story as they color. Students and admirers of Irving and Rackham will enjoy the elfish portrayals of henpecked Rip and shrewish Dame Van Winkle.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Cambridge Public Library 1887 written by Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle s Neighbors written by Thomas S. Wermuth and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Rip Van Winkle was a fictional character, his community in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York State was very real. Thomas S. Wermuth's book shows that the popular view of Hudson Valley farmers as self-sufficient, independent, and free of governmental authority is as fictional as the character of Rip Van Winkle himself. In fact these mid-Hudson farmers lived in villages where economic practices and behavior were regulated by civil authorities as well as neighborhood concerns, and where acquisitive practices that were believed to endanger the public good were forbidden. Based on extensive research into previously unused town records and commercial accounts, this book challenges the belief that the early valley was a capitalist society, arguing that the beliefs and practices associated with modern capitalism developed slowly and unevenly, and were not always welcomed by valley families.
Download or read book Index to Fairy Tales Myths and Legends written by Mary Huse Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Possessions written by Judith RICHARDSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
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