Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker
- ISBN-10
- 1978465203
- ISBN-13
- 9781978465206
- Series
- Rip Van Winkle
- Pages
- 24
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-20
- Author
- Washington Irving
Description
'Rip Van Winkle' (1819) is a short story by Washington Irving.It is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains, lives kindly Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch villager. Van Winkle enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness or hanging out at the inn with his friends. He is loved by all in the town, especially the children to whom he tells stories or for whom he repairs toys. However, he tends to shirk hard work, to his nagging wife's dismay, which has caused his home and farm to fall into disarray. One autumn day, to escape his wife's nagging, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog, Wolf. Hearing his name called out,
