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"Rip Van Winkle" (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑŋ ˈʋɪŋkəl]) 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.
Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. [1]
A bankrupt film studio and a mediocre film director make a movie of the founding of Vinland. Using a time travel machine, they cast real Vikings. 1968 Hawksbill Station: Robert Silverberg: An oppressive government uses a time machine to deport their political prisoners to the Cambrian, a half-billion years in the past. 1968 The Last Starship ...
Van Dien adds, "Washington Irving went around and captured some of them," including Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which he wrote and published in 1819 and 1820, respectively ...
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (リップヴァンウィンクルの花嫁, Rippu van winkuru no hanayome) is a 2016 Japanese drama film written, directed, edited and co-produced by Shunji Iwai, based on his novel of the same name. [3]
Rip Van Winkle (1914 film) Rip Van Winkle (1921 film) Rip's Dream This page was last edited on 3 June 2022, at 04:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
If Rip Van Winkle were an investor today, what kind of stock would he buy? Probably one that he could purchase then snooze for 20 years or so without any worries. Rip would want a company with ...
The Return of Rip Van Winkle, painting by John Quidor, 1849. Sometimes, as in Washington Irving's Sketch Book, which contains "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" among others, the conceit is that the author of the book is not the real author but a fictional character, in this case a man named Crayon. Here the frame includes the ...