Rip Van Winkle
Author:
Washington Irving
Content:
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Illustrator:
N.C. Wyeth
Publication:
1921 by David McKay Company
Genre:
Classic Literature, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, Historic Tales and Legends, Short Story
Pages:
86
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Washington Irving's masterpiece has entranced readers for over 165 years, and though many artists have illustrated this classic, none has so perfectly captured the mysterious adventures of Rip and the boisterous crew of Dutchmen as the great American artist N. C. Wyeth. In ten richly colored paintings and twenty-six vivid line drawings, Wyeth brilliantly recreated the world of eighteenth-century life in the Catskill Mountains.
Join henpecked farmer Rip Van Winkle as he escapes to the hills for a day of hunting. There he meets a strange dwarf and later a group of men playing ninepins. But when Rip drinks from their keg a few times, he falls into a deep sleep and wakes to find his beard full-grown and white, his wife gone, his daughter grown and married, and the whole country changed by the Revolution.
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Washington Irving
1783 - 1859American
Washington Irving was a writer of short stories, essays, and biographies, best known for his two stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Ho... See more
N.C. Wyeth
October 22, 1882 - October 19, 1945American
American mural painter, a pupil of Howard Pyle, who set a new fashion in the illustrating of children's books with his colorful and dramatic picture... See more
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle 
Reprinted in 2021 by SeaWolf Press
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The text and illustrations for Rip Van Winkle are from a 1921 David McKay edition. The text and illustrations for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are from an 1893 edition by Macmillan and Company.
Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Illustrated 200th Anniversary Edition
Reprinted in 2020 by SeaWolf Press
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The cover, text and illustrations for Rip Van Winkle are from a 1921 David McKay edition. The text and illustrations for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are from an 1893 edition by Macmillan Company.
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Podcast
Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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Rip Van Winkle
Released in 2018 by Close Reads Podcast
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Length: 1 hr. 15 min.
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Join David Kern, Heidi White, and very special guest Jonathan Rogers (author of The Wilderking Trilogy and The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor, among other books), for a deep-dive into Washington Irving's famous short story, "Rip Van Winkle." Topics include the place of this story in the American literary tradition, Irving's craftsmanship, the conceit/framing device Irving employs, and a whole lot more.
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