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A short summary of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Rip Van Winkle.
“Rip Van Winkle” Summary & Analysis. Next. Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. The story opens with a parenthetical note written by an omniscient third person narrator, who tells us that the following tale was written by the late historian Diedrich Knickerbocker.
Summary. In a village near the Catskill Mountains in New York lives a man named Rip Van Winkle – a kind neighbour and henpecked husband. He is dutiful and quick to help his friends and neighbours, and is well liked.
“Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving tells the story of a colonial Dutch American villager who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains for twenty years. Rip, an easygoing man who spends his...
Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American man with a habit of avoiding useful work, lives in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolution. One day, he goes squirrel hunting in the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging.
Rip Van Winkle, short story by Washington Irving, published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20. Though set in the Dutch culture of pre-Revolutionary War New York state, the story of Rip Van Winkle is based on a German folktale.
Rip Van Winkle Summary. Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old New York gentleman with an interest in the histories and stories told by the descendants of Dutch settlers in New York in the early 19th century, narrates the story of a simple, good-natured man named Rip Van Winkle, who lives in a small village in the Catskills.
