by Washington Irving · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582535305
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«Rip Van Winkle» is a graded reader in English by Washington Irving, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (48 pages, in English).
The volume brings together two tales set in the Catskill Mountains: in the first, farmer Rip Van Winkle wanders through the woods, drinks the liquor of some mysterious strangers, and wakes up twenty years later in a transformed world; in the second, a superstitious schoolmaster crosses paths with the headless horseman during an unsettling night.
It belongs to the New Method Supplementary Readers collection, with text simplified by Michael Wroe and illustrations by Richard Rose. Washington Irving's original story was first published in 1819.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language (ELT/ESL) who want to approach the classics with graded reading.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
