Rip Van Winkle (1896) Eng

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story s fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Although the story is set in New York s Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, When I wrote the story, I had never been on the