Rip Van Winkle

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Asleep for twenty years after a night of playing nine-pins and drinking moonshine with ghosts, Rip van Winkle wakes to find that he has slept through the American Revolution. Although the implication is that moonshine and magic are what put Rip to sleep for so long, the flowers on this cover evoke the poppy, a flower long associated with sleep due to its opium content.

A version of this book has been digitized and is available through Hathitrust.

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10680136

 

Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle.
Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn, Margaret Armstrong et al
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899