Book Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9788125021766
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author : Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374363086
Rip Van Winkle is an idler who would rather starve for a penny than work for a pound, and his wife is constantly nagging him. In search of peace, Rip heads off to the woods one day with his faithful dog, Wolf. High up in the Catskill Mountains, Rip meets an unusual group of little men. He drinks their strong beverage and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens, he finds that twenty years have passed – the world has changed and so has he. With vibrant paintings by Leonard Everett Fisher, Eric A. Kimmel’s adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic “Rip Van Winkle” introduces a Rip who reforms as a result of his experience. Rip Van Winkle's Return is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Bowling
ISBN :
Author : Thomas S. Wermuth
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2001-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791450833
Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.
Author : Wright Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0735221251
The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time.” —Eric Asimov, The New York Times “Bourbon is for sharing, and so is Pappyland.”—The Wall Street Journal The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. Following his father’s death decades ago, Julian Van Winkle stepped in to try to save the bourbon business his grandfather had founded on the mission statement: “We make fine bourbon—at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon.” With the company in its wilderness years, Julian committed to safeguarding his namesake’s legacy or going down with the ship. Then he discovered that hundreds of barrels from the family distillery had survived their sale to a multinational conglomerate. The whiskey that Julian produced after recovering those barrels would immediately be hailed as the greatest in the world—and soon would be the hardest to find. Once they had been used up, a fresh challenge began: preserving the taste of Pappy in a new age. Wright Thompson was invited to ride along as Julian undertook the task. From the Van Winkle family, Wright learned not only about great bourbon but about complicated legacies and the rewards of honoring your people and your craft—lessons that he couldn’t help but apply to his own work and life. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Pappyland.
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486244792
Here, along with the complete text of this classic story are 30 Rackham illustrations rendered for coloring. Children can make their first thrilling acquaintance with the story as they color. Students and admirers of Irving and Rackham will enjoy the elfish portrayals of henpecked Rip and shrewish Dame Van Winkle.
Author : Patrick Parr
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1641601817
"Masterfully researched and beautifully written, One Week in America is . . . an important piece of history full of larger-than-life characters and unlikely heroes." —Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life The major players in this story are names that just about every American has heard of: Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King Jr., Norman Mailer, Lyndon B. Johnson, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, William F. Buckley Jr. For one chaotic week in 1968, college students, talented authors, and presidential candidates grappled with major events. The result was one of the most historic literary festivals of the twentieth century One Week in America is a day-by-day narrative of the 1968 Notre Dame Sophomore Literary Festival and the national events that grabbed the spotlight that April week. On one particular week, sixties politics and literature came together on campus.
Author : John Howard Wainwright
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : William F. Helmer
Publisher : Berkeley, Calif. : Howell-North Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
"These four railroads/railways steamed in the Catskill Mountains of New York State and were primarily passenger carriers. For forty years these operations connected with the steams of the Hudson River Day Line, the Catskill Night Line, the N. Y. C. & Hudson River Railroad and the West Shore Railroad."--Flap.
Author : Andrew Burstein
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0807178039
Two centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Published in England and America in 1819–1820, and universally praised for its inventive characters and soul-searching qualities, including the immortal tales “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the volume enjoyed remarkable transatlantic success, allowing Irving to become the first of his nation to support himself as a professional author. In this distinctive collection, historians and literary scholars come together to reassess Irving’s imaginative world and complex cultural legacy. Alternately a satirist and a nostalgia merchant, Irving was ever absorbed in reconstituting a lost past, which the volume dubs “Rip Van Winkle’s Republic.” The assembled scholars explore issues of Anglo-American culture, the power of imagery, race, and the treatment of time and history in Irving’s vast body of literature, as well as his status as a bibliophile, an antiquarian, and a prominent figure in an age of literary celebrity. Edited by acclaimed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Rip Van Winkle’s Republic marks a rediscovery of this marvelous author of social satire and fabled tales of the past.