Rip Van Winkle
In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York’s Catskill Mountains, lives kindly Rip Van Winkle, a colonial British-American villager of Dutch ancestry.
Van Winkle enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, but also remains loved by all in town — especially the children to whom he tells stories and gives toys. His home life is another story though. Van Winkle tends to shirk hard work, to his nagging wife’s dismay. Consequently, his home and farm to fall into disarray. Little does he know, however, that his life is about to be turned upside-down.
After Van Winkle drinks moonshine with mysterious mountain men, he falls asleep… for twenty years.
- About the author: Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. His best known short stories are Rip Van Winkle (1819) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820).
