TY - BOOK AU - Irving,Washington AU - Merrill,Frank T. TI - Rip Van Winkle AV - PZPS PY - 2021/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fantasy fiction KW - New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction KW - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction KW - Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction KW - Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle; Release date is 2021-02-26; Sue Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is a short story first 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 the world around him has transformed dramatically. He returns to find his village changed, filled with unfamiliar faces, and discovers he has slept through the American Revolution. The tale explores themes of time, change, and nostalgia in early America. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64636 ER -