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Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving as Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. · 1819short story
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- Themetime loopimmortality
- Placemountains
- Timeage of sail & 18th century
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"Rip Van Winkle" 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.
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Placement
- contained in American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Storiesanthology
- contained in Fireside Readeranthology
- contained in Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imaginationanthology
- contained in Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollowcollection
- contained in The American Fantasy Traditionanthology
- contained in The Big Book of Classic Fantasyanthology
- contained in The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Washington Irving: Volume 2collection
- contained in The Dog Megapack: 25 Curly Canine Tales, Old and Newanthology
- contained in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Storiescollection
- contained in The Oxford Book of American Short Storiesanthology
- contained in The Romancist and Novelist's Library: The Best Works of the Best Authors; Volume IIIanthology
- contained in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.collection
- contained in Three Tales from The Sketch Bookcollection
- contained in Washington Irving's Tales of the Supernaturalcollection