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Mohammed (Wordsworth Classics) by Washington IRVING
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worship false gods instead. As the last and greatest prophet of the one and only God, it was his task to abolish ...Show more
Old Christmas by Washington Irving
Category: Classics
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. So begins Irving's classic recital of Christmas traditions in 19th-century England. Originally part of The Sketch Books of Geoffrey Crayon, G ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle by Gemma Barder; Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Washington. Irving
Category: Children's
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Category: Fiction
Washington Irving's story of a man who sleeps for twenty years and awakens to find a changed world has been a classic of American literature since it was first published in 1819. Arthur Rackham is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century. This deluxe gift edition carefully reproduce th ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving; N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Calla Editions Ser.
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle : Little Black Classic by Washington Irving
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'I'm not myself - I'm somebody else - that's me yonder - no - that's somebody else got into my shoes...I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!' Touching and comic short stories from the 19th century American master of the genre. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some ...Show more