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| rip van winkle main idea: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving, 1893 |
| rip van winkle main idea: Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving, 1896 |
| rip van winkle main idea: Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent Washington Irving, 1865 |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving, 2015-04-24 A late night ride brings a horrifying sight “There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind.” ― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story by American author Washington Irving that has become a Halloween and horror classic. Set in 1790 in Tarrytown, New York, Ichabod Crane encounters a mysterious figure who carries his head not on his shoulders, but in his saddle. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Time Traveller and the Tiger Tania Unsworth, 2020-10-01 Face to face with the mightiest and most majestic predator in the jungle, Elsie is in awe of the tiger's beauty. She's on a mission to have the adventure of a lifetime, save the tiger and change the future. With echoes of Tom's Midnight Garden, Tania Unsworth writes about transcendent friendships and conservation in the animal kingdom. Elsie is not looking forward to the long summer holiday with her creaky, old Uncle John. But then the unimaginable happens as Time unravels and Elsie tumbles back to 1940s India to meet her Uncle John as a young boy on a tiger hunt. Can Elsie stop him from doing what he's already told her is a wrong he can never right? The Time Traveller and the Tiger is a multi-layered novel for 9-12 year-olds, rich in adventure, mystery, historical and conservation themes. Praise for The Time Traveller and the Tiger: 'Spine-tinglingly good. Enthralling and prize-worthy' AMANDA CRAIG 'A classic adventure, and a transporting evocation of the mighty, beautiful, much misunderstood creature at its heart' PIERS TORDAY 'An atmospheric adventure story with a strong message about the importance of conservation' BOOKTRUST |
| rip van winkle main idea: Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving, 1993-01-15 A collection of short stories written by Washington Irving. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern Seth Adam Smith, 2016-05-01 On All Hallow's Eve, 1717, Mr. and Mrs. Van Winkle ofBoston venture into a graveyard and make a startlingdiscovery: a newborn baby boy, left to die in an opengrave. The Van Winkles rescue the child and raise him astheir own, giving him the name 'Rip.' As the child grows, he demonstrates a curious power over life and everything he touches seems to grow-like magic. In 1730, young Rip sneaks into South Burying Ground andcomes face-to-face with the ghost of William Blaxton, the legendary settler of Boston. Warning Rip that the city is in danger, the ghost gives Rip a mysterious gift-a pumpkin lantern with power over life and death. Because of the lantern's power, the forces of darkness will stop at nothing to have the lantern Before fading into the night, the ghost commands Rip to findFeathertop, a pumpkin-headed scarecrow with the powerto save Boston. Pursued by Mistress Hibbins, a witch of unimaginablepower, and hunted by Goodman Brown, a cunning corpse, young Rip must rely on the aid of Jonathan Edwards, a stern but secretive preacher, and Nathaniel, a talkative, know-it-all raven. While on the search for Feathertop, Rip races across New England to become a most unlikely hero! |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Epic of America James Truslow Adams, 2012-05-01 Originally published in 1931 by Little, Brown, and Company. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo, 2009-09-08 A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Alone in America Robert A. Ferguson, 2013-01-14 With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live alone. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1905 Jorge Luis Borges creía que en los cuentos de Nathaniel Hawthorne se inaugura el modo particular de ensoñación del cual surgirá el lenguaje oceánico de Herman Melville, las pesadillas de Edgar Allan Poe y las alucinaciones de William Faulkner. De hecho, cuando se les pidió a seis escritores argentinos que nombraran sus relatos predilectos, Borges escogió sin vacilar el “Wakefield” de Hawthorne, una “breve y ominosa parábola” que prefigura el mundo de Kafka, autor que a su vez “modifica y afina la lectura de ‘Wakefield’”. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway, 2023-01-01 A couple’s future hangs in the balance as they wait for a train in a Spanish café in this short story by a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. At a small café in rural Spain, a man and woman have a conversation while they wait for their train to Madrid. The subtle, casual nature of their talk masks a more complicated situation that could endanger the future of their relationship. First published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women, “Hills Like White Elephants” exemplifies Ernest Hemingway’s style of spare, tight prose that continues to win readers over to this day. |
| rip van winkle main idea: A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Washington Irving, 1842 |
| rip van winkle main idea: Knickerbocker's History of New York Annotated Washington Irving, 2021-04-12 Knickerbocker's History of New York is a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in New York newspapers seeking information+E18 on Diedrich Knickerbocker, a crusty Dutch historian who had allegedly gone missing from his hotel in New York City. As part of the ruse, Irving placed a notice-allegedly from the hotel's proprietor-informing readers that if Mr. Knickerbocker failed to return to the hotel to pay his bill, he would publish a manuscript Knickerbocker had left behind. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville, 2015-04-01 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by Herman Melville about a strange man with a strange phrase: I would prefer not to. This American short story is now one of the most famous of American short stories and has been adapted into many variations. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Original Knickerbocker Andrew Burstein, 2008-02-26 Washington Irving-author, ambassador, and Manhattanite-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are well known. Acclaimed historian Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was an international celebrity-both a comic genius and the first American to earn his living as an author. Irving traveled through Europe and America, excavating tales and writing popular social satire, beloved children's stories, gothic drama, and picturesque history. He gave his young nation such enduring tales as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. His 1809 burlesque, A History of New York, popularized the figure of jolly old St. Nicholas, and gave birth to the modern American Christmas. Irving was the original Knickerbocker; he also coined Gotham as the name for New York. By showing Irving as a leading architect of the American personality Burstein has managed to reinvigorate the legacy of one our nation's most outsized literary talents as well as to help us better understand the country we live in. |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Cask of Amontillado (一桶阿蒙蒂亞度酒) Edgar Allan Poe, 2011-09-15 |
| rip van winkle main idea: Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, 2010-08-11 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. |
| rip van winkle main idea: My Kinsman, Major Molineux Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2020-02-21 In this essay, the literary scholar Charles White investigates light as a symbol and as an imagery in Hawthorne's My Kinsman, Major Molineux. Such include the expansive use of the moonlight background in the introduction and the successive artificial sources of light... |
| rip van winkle main idea: Salmagundi; Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, and Others Washington Irving, 1820 |
| rip van winkle main idea: Wolfert's Roost Washington Irving, 1868 |
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| rip van winkle main idea: One Week in America Patrick Parr, 2021-03-02 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. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Life of George Washington Washington Irving, 1915 |
| rip van winkle main idea: Pappyland Wright Thompson, 2020-11-10 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. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard Jonathan Auxier, 2016-04-05 The exciting second adventure in the Vanished Kingdom series—about a clever bookmender whose life is turned upside down when she's sent on a mission to save stories and storybooks across the Wide World It’s been two years since Peter Nimble and Sir Tode rescued the kingdom of HazelPort. In that time, they have traveled far and wide in search of adventure. Now they have been summoned by Professor Cake for a new mission: to find a 12-year-old bookmender named Sophie Quire. Sophie knows little beyond the four walls of her father’s bookshop, where she repairs old books and dreams of escaping the confines of her dull life. But when a strange boy and his talking cat/horse companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she finds herself pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read. The beloved Vanished Kingdom series is from Jonathan Auxier, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Gardener and Sweep *This novel should be in the hands of every human young enough at heart to be enchanted by the written word. —Kirkus, starred review Also available: Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes The War of the Maps |
| rip van winkle main idea: Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16) Washington Irving, 1983-11-15 Washington Irving’s career as a writer began obscurely at age seventeen, when his brother’s newspaper published his series of comic reports on the theater, theater-goers, fashions, balls, courtships, duels, and marriages of his contemporary New York, called Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. Written in the persona of an elderly gentleman of the old school, these letters captured his fellow townsmen at play in their most incongruous attitudes of simple sophistication. Irving’s next work, Salmagundi, written in collaboration with his brother William and James Kirke Paulding, and published at irregular intervals in 1805–06, continued this roguish style of satire and burlesque. A History of New York, publicized by an elaborate hoax in the local newspapers concerning the disappearance of the elderly “Diedrich Knickerbocker,” turned out to be a wild and hilarious spoof that combined real New York history with political satire. Quickly reprinted in England, it was admired by Walter Scott and Charles Dickens (who carried his copy in his pocket). In later years, as Irving revised and re-revised his History, he softened his gibes at Thomas Jefferson, the Dutch, and the Yankees of New England; this Library of America volume presents the work in its original, exuberant, robust, and unexpurgated form, giving modern readers a chance to enjoy the version that brought him immediate international acclaim. The Sketch Book contains Irving’s two best-loved stories, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” It also includes many sketches of English country and city life, as well as nostalgic portraits of vanishing traditions, like the old celebrations of Christmas. A writer of great urbanity and poise, acutely sensitive to the nostalgia of a passing age, Washington Irving was a central figure in America’s emergence on the international scene. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Rainbow People Laurence Yep, 1992-08-30 Culled from 69 stories collected in a [1930s] WPA project, [these 20] tales are organized into sections with themes like 'Tricksters' or 'Virtues and Vices,' each with a thoughtful introduction placing the individual stories in the context of feelings and background of the original tellers. Yep's telling is vigorous, often poetic, imbued with earthy humor and realism touched with fatalism. A handsomely designed collection. —K. Notable Children's Books of 1989 (ALA) The USA Through Children's Books 1990 (ALA) 1989 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction 1990 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) 1989 Children's Editors' Choices (BL) Notable 1989 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children's Books of 1989 (Library of Congress) 1989 Children's Books (NY Public Library) The Best Books 1989 (Parents Magazine) |
| rip van winkle main idea: A Horseman In The Sky Ambrose Bierce, 2014-07-08 On a warm afternoon in the fall of 1861 Carter Druse is on picket duty on top of a cliff overlooking a valley where five regiments of the Union army are resting. The enemy is near, and the Union force means to surprise them in the night unless “accident or vigilance” forewarns them. Druse had been sleeping but wakes to see a man on a horse surveying the activity in the valley below. He sights his rifle, but hesitates when the rider turns and seems to look straight at him. In a crisis of conscience, Druse questions where his duty lies. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Astray Emma Donoghue, 2012-10-30 From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times. |
| rip van winkle main idea: American History Through Literature, 1820-1870 Janet Gabler-Hover, Robert Sattelmeyer, 2005-12 These interdisciplinary works provide a standard reference for American literature in its broadest cultural context, offering a comprehensive overview of American history through a literary lens. The first set presents a unique overview of the critical period, which spans the early national era through the Civil War, and which witnessed the birth of a truly American literature. The second set covers the era following the Civil War through to the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of the First World War. |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Widow And Her Son Washington Irving, 2000 |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Wife Washington Irving, 2023-05-09 |
| rip van winkle main idea: Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving, 2017-08-20 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving, 2003-07-30 An abridged version of two stories by Washington Irving; complete with vocabulary and comprehension checks for beginning readers. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Lost in NYC Nadja Spiegelman, 2015 After getting separated from his teacher, his classmates, and his trip partner during an outing to the Empire State Building, Pablo, the new kid in school, learns to navigate the New York City subway system as well as his own feelings towards making new friends and living in a big city--Provided by publisher. |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Country Church Washington Irving, 2000 |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Scarlet Ibis James Hurst, 1962-01-01 |
| rip van winkle main idea: The Unincorporated Man Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin, 2015-06-02 Dani and Eytan Kollin's The Unincorporated Man is a provocative social/political/economic novel that people will be arguing about for decades. The incredible has happened. A billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early 21st century, is discovered in the far future and resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. He awakens into a civilization in which every individual is formed into a legal corporation at birth, and spends many years trying to attain control over their own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed. Justin Cord is the only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land. Justin survived because he is tough and smart. He cannot accept only part ownership of himself, even if that places him in conflict with a civilization that extends outside the solar system to the Oort Cloud. |
| rip van winkle main idea: Purposive Writing and Speaking Joseph A. Wallace, James Milton O'Neill, 1925 |
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知乎 - 有问题，就会有答案
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业、友善的社区 …
OFF和ON哪个是开哪个是关 - 百度知道
OFF和ON哪个是开哪个是关OFF和ON在机器开关上，OFF表示关闭，ON表示开启的意思。OFF是单词off的大写，off词汇本身就表示有“断开”“脱离”之意，表示电路断开。
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英语中,"besides""except""except for"究竟什么区别？ - 百度知道
3)All the students took at rip except Tom yesterday. 4)We need 3 more persons to finish the job besides／inaddition to us two. 2.作介词用法时的except后可接多种情况的介词短语。在这种情况 …
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考虑到4K电影的体积，下载并不是一个好的策略，而且现在双层dolby vision的电影只能用蓝光机播放，网上的4k原盘rip是看不了的，所以我更推荐买盘。 4k uhd的正版盘都不便宜，但是散装的4k uhd …
