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Jul 2024
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RIP VAN WINKLE by WASHINGTON IRVING

JON HAGADORN
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This classic story from America's first widely recognized author Washington Irving tells the story of a henpecked husband who fell asleep in the Catskills for twenty years and upon waking up, was surprised to find that everything had changed and that the American Revolution had taken place during his absence.

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