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Indonesian Rip Van Winkle

21 March, 2010 (22:16) | Old Books | No comments

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 [...]