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To escape a nagging wife, Rip Van Winkle went hunting with his faithful dog Wolf as was his wont. Little did he know what he would encounter as he climbed up to the top of the Catskill Mountains, and what he would behold.
Meanwhile, twenty years later, a strange old man enters an All-American town looking for his dog, his nagging wife, and a world he had known, but had somehow mysteriously lost.
The classic story of Rip Van Winkle originally written by Washington Irving is brought to life in an abridged version for children ages 7-12 by authors Fiza Pathan and Michaelangelo Zane. The book contains nineteen, beautiful, black-and-white illustrations conceived by Fiza Pathan and executed by Farzana Cooper.
About the author
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Irving made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819-20.
