Books with title Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle is the tale of the amiable, lazy farmer who "loathes profitable labor" of any kind. He is loved by all but his own wife. Dame Van Winkle's nagging gets louder and longer as he neglects his farm and fields. One day, Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains and comes upon some strangely dressed men and, after sharing some of their liquor, he falls asleep. When he wakes up, twenty years and the Revolutionary War have passed! Rip Van Winkle was introduced in England in 1819 as part of a collection of stories titled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon". This edition was published in 1863, and contains many fine illustrations.

In New York's Catskill Mountains before the American Revolution, a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later without realizing how much time has passed. Unaware that the Revolutionary War has taken place, he must come to terms with the changes he encounters. Washington Irving wrote ΓÇ£Rip Van WinkleΓÇ¥ while living in England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., alongside his other famous tale, ΓÇ£The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.ΓÇ¥ Irving later admitted that "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." Since its publication in 1819, the story has become part of American pop culture and has been adapted many times for stage, film, radio, and television.