Rip Van Winkle

"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story, belonging to its country and its time. The work is based on the plot of a European fairy tale about the shepherd Peter Klaus, who spent 20 years sleeping in the mountains, which the writer drew from a collection of German folklorist Othmar.


Washington's Irving novel made a romantic coup in American artistic consciousness, it can safely be considered the date of the birth of original American literature.


Now even more interesting in this exclusive illustrated edition.