Rip Van Winkle is a short story by American author
Washington Irving published in 1819. Written while Irving was living in
Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of
Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill
Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never
been on the Catskills."[1] The story's protagonist, also called Rip Van
Winkle, is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American
Revolutionary War.
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