Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
A Legend
A good-natured but idle villager wanders into the Catskills to escape domestic nagging, drinks with mysterious mountain folk, and falls into a deep sleep that lasts about twenty years; when he awakens and returns to his hamlet he finds that everything has changed — his beard is long, his wife is gone, his children are grown, and the village has new laws and leaders after a revolution — leaving him bewildered by the passage of time and the transformations of society but ultimately becoming a beloved local storyteller about his strange disappearance and return.
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- Published
- 1819
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 10-30 pages
- Original Language
- English
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