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I think Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn share that honor.

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"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is considered to be America's first literary folktale. It was first published in 1819 and is a story about a man who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to find his village drastically changed.

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