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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]
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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 ...
The story provides a Jewish version on the theme of a person or persons (as the Seven Sleepers) sleeping for many decades and waking to find a changed world—a theme originating in the story of Epimenides—found in many divergent cultures and traditions, and in modern times associated especially with the Rip Van Winkle story.
Van Winkle is a Dutch surname. It is the Anglicization of Van Winkel , meaning "from shop" in modern Dutch, but originating as "from Winkel", a number of places in the Low Countries and Germany. Perhaps the most famous Van Winkle is the title character of " Rip Van Winkle ", an 1819 short story by Washington Irving.
If you don’t know what methamphetamine is you gotta be Rip Van Winkle’s grandma, but, for the record, it’s the derangingly strong amphetamine derivative that the Wehrmacht was jacked to fuck ...
A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]