1. Rip van winkle
... Holland, France and Italy and frequently wrote using the creative tools of fiction to comment on historical background and events of American history. The setting of the story is somewhere in New England while the country was yet the province of Great Britain. The story tells us a lot about how the people where living back then. The people lived in diminutive villages, and each villager knew ... all their neighbors. The community worked as a whole, like an one big family ... 's repression. " but there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was-petticoat g...
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- Grade Level: High School