Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving
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Rip Van Winkle

Author: Washington Irving

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/17/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

In New York's Catskill Mountains before the American Revolution, a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later without realizing how much time has passed. Unaware that the Revolutionary War has taken place, he must come to terms with the changes he encounters. Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle while living in England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., alongside his other famous tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving later admitted that "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." Since its publication in 1819, the story has become part of American pop culture and has been adapted many times for stage, film, radio, and television.

About Washington Irving

Washington Irving (1783–1859) was an American author, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist. He is best known for writing the stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Early on, he was a contributor to the Morning Chronicle, published Salmagundi, and served as editor of Analetic magazine in Philadelphia and New York. In 1809, he published the comical A History of New York under the name "Dietrich Knickerbocker." Eleven years later, he published a collection of stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which allowed him to become a full-time writer. Other books written by Irving are Bracebridge Hall, Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada, A Tour of the Prairies, and The Life of George Washington, a five-volume title.


Reviews

م موجة الحر الابدية حولت مصر الى هذا الوادي النعسان اما هناك في" الوادي النعسان" حيث الكل يمشون في حالة حلم يقظة مستمر..يؤمنون بكل الخوارق ..هنا تطير النيازك و تسقط النجوم ولكن تظل الروح المسيطرة على سليبي هولو هو شبح بلا رأس يمتطي حصانا. .باحثا للابد عن رأسه ..و بين الأسماء الهولندية الثقيلة و الطباع......more

Simply classic! Delightfully written, this classic American folktale recounts the exploits of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane during his brief stay in the cozy little town of Sleepy Hollow. The town is wrought however, with ghost stories dangling upon the lips of its citizens and goblins lurking in every......more

Goodreads review by Roy

Prose writers are voluminous and unwieldy; their pages crowded with commonplaces, and their thoughts expanded into tediousness. I am a child of Sleepy Hollow, New York, and I have lived in Irving’s shadow almost as long as I can remember. Every Halloween, this town is inundated with tourists, who......more

Goodreads review by A.E.

2.5 All due respect to Irving for being possibly the first American writer to be able to earn a living by writing; it’s not easy being one of the first, as you usually have only your own experiences and mistakes to learn from. The most famous of the fifteen stories in this collection are “Rip Van Win......more