While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." Plot It was published in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and thence falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains. " Rip Van Winkle" ( Dutch pronunciation: ) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Depiction of Rip Van Winkle by John Quidor (1829).
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