Indonesian Rip Van Winkle
In 1953, the Garrard Publishing Company released a book entitled Far East Stories For Pleasure Reading, written by Edward Dolch, Marguerite Dolch and Beulah Jackson. In this book, a chapter called The Maker of Puppets features a tale that is remarkably like Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle.
The main character of the story, Ali ben [...]