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Rip Van Winkle
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The following tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favourite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and st…
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- AuthorWashington Irving
- SourceProject Gutenberg #60976
- Length8,301 words
- Chapters7
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
7 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01ARTHUR RACKHAM’S BOOK OF PICTURES 21s. net
- 02RIP VAN WINKLE
- 03To face page
- 04INTRODUCTION
- 05RIP VAN WINKLE
- 06NOTE
- 07POSTSCRIPT
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