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Rip Van Winkle
For other uses, see Rip Van Winkle (disambiguation).
1819 short story by Washington Irving
"Rip Van Winkle" (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈrɪpfɑŋˈʋɪŋkəl]) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution.
Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. It was published in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."[1]
The Mountain Top Historical Society in Haines Falls, New York, has hosted a community reading of the story every year since 2019. The
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