Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories

10 best books like Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories (Washington Irving): Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington, In the Vanishers’ Palace, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, Tam Lin, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton, A Child's Garden of Verses, The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Devil May Care

Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington

Author	Patricia Miller
ISBN	0374252661

The woman--and her illicit affair--that rocked Victorian America

When Madeline Pollard was a teenager, she began an extended affair with the Kentucky Congressman William Breckinridge, one of the most influential men in America. Breckinridge was married, and he once declared women's...

In the Vanishers’ Palace

Author

Aliette de Bodard

In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land...

A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.

A dragon, among the last of her kind,...

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

Author	Alison Weir
ISBN	0345434870

In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of a truly exceptional woman and provides new insights into her intimate world.

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was...

Tam Lin

Author

Pamela Dean

In the ancient Scottish ballad Tam Lin, headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul.

In this version of Tam Lin Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university...

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Author

Ben Goldfarb

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...

Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton

Author	Tilar J. Mazzeo
ISBN	1501166301

From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America’s early days.

Fans fell in love with...

A Child's Garden of Verses

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0689823827

Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson...

The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize

Author	John Fletcher
ISBN	0719053676

This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century. A unique and essential companion to the numerous textbook editions of Shakespeare's...

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

Author	Richard Preston
ISBN	1400064899

Preston looks at the very tallest trees on our planet and the people who seek them out, climb them and study them. This was a very engaging trip into a very unfamiliar territory. One amazing thing was that knowledge of the whereabouts of earth’s wooden giants is held by a very few individuals. The people...

Devil May Care

Author	Elizabeth Peters
ISBN	0380731150

Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the...

The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials

Author	Marion L. Starkey
ISBN	0385035098

In truth, this book is a near-failure.
Historically it sucks, and it reeks of the sense of postmodern superiority often found in books written by social scientists.
Apparently, Ms. Starkey "...applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria," yet that psychiatric element...

The World According to Narnia: Christian Meaning in C. S. Lewis's Beloved Chronicles

Author	Jonathan Rogers
ISBN	0446696498

In some ways this treatment of the Narnia books contains no surprises. Thoughtful multi-readers of the Chronicals will have picked up on some of these themes already and may wonder if it's worth a read.

It is.

For two reasons. First, Rogers deftly assumes his readers thorough intimacy...