Rip Van Winkle

1850 · Book · Washington Irving

“THE following Tale was found among the papers of the tale 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.”

1891 edition,g.p.putnam,a legendof the kaatskill mountains, by washington irving, fiction by Washington Irving