Jess
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(9/8/02 7:18:26 pm)
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rip van winkle
According to Internet sites, Rip is based upon a German folktale "Peter Klaus the Goatherd", which Irving translated at some point prior to writing the book. Obviously, Irving digressed from the original folktale - or rather used the framework to create an American "political" literary folktale. That was a mouthful. I still need to find a version of it though.
Jess
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