Rip Van Winkle: Simplified For Modern Readers

"Rip Van Winkle" is Washington Irving’s famous short story of a man who falls asleep only to wake twenty years later to a changed world.
-The language of almost two hundred years ago has been extensively modernized.
-End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text.
-Biographical information on Irving included.
-Every effort has been made to keep the story as close to the original as possible.
-Modern readers will better understand and appreciate this entertaining story of a lazy man who leaves his nag of a wife for a better world.
For other short stories in easy to understand modern English search for “George Lakon” or www.EasyStories.net.