Rip Van Winkle
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title:
Rip Van Winkle
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"Rip Van Winkle" 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. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporar
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1819 short story by Washington Irving
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle
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2003-06-12T15:20:37Z
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2024-09-01T00:10:39Z
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