Irving, Washington 1783-1859 creator Rackham, Arthur 1867-1939 text utu 2019 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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. Now an elderly stranger in his own home, Rip must navigate a world he no longer recognizes and reconcile with the life that continued without him. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle Release date is 2019-12-20 Produced by Sue Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified Fantasy fiction New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction PZ PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60976 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60976 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134415.0 60976