Rip Van Winkle: Illustrated, Paperback/N. C. Wyeth

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Description Rip Van Winkle (1912) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, best known his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York's "Kaatskill" Mountains, lives the kindly Rip Van Winkle, a colonial British-American villager of Dutch descent. Rip is an amiable though somewhat hermitic man who enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, but is also loved by all in town-especially the children to whom he tells stories and gives toys.

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Newell Convers Wyeth

ilustrator și pictor american (1882-1945)

Newell Convers Wyeth a fost un pictor și ilustrator american. A fost elevul lui Howard Pyle și a devenit unul dintre cei mai cunoscuți ilustratori ai Americii. Wyeth a realizat mai mult de 3.000 de picturi și a ilustrat 112 cărți — dintre care 25 pentru editura Scribner's, în seria Scribner Classics, care reprezintă corpul de lucrări pentru care este cel mai bine cunoscut.