Rip Van Winkle
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"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is a short story published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager who encounters mysterious strangers in the Catskill Mountains, drinks their liquor, and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens, twenty years have passed and everything has changed—his village is transformed, his friends are gone, and he has slept through the American Revolution.
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Topics: Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction · Fantasy fiction · Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction · New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction · Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
