“Rip Van Winkle” borrows much of its content from Dutch folklore and other mythologies. He continued writing and keeping up with correspondence until his death in 1859. Later in his life he moved back to Tarrytown New York, and lived on an estate he named “Sunnyside.” He left this estate to serve as the US ambassador to Spain for four years before returning. He spent 17 years living in Europe (primarily Britain and Spain) and was well regarded abroad. His writing eventually earned him fame and status, and he was one of the first American authors whose writings received international recognition. Irving studied law before becoming interested in historical writing and short fiction. He is most famous for his short stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving was born in New York and was named after General George Washington (who hadn’t yet been elected President at the time of Irving’s birth, as the Constitution had not been either written or ratified by 1783). His strange tale is solemnly taken to heart by the Dutch settlers, particularly by the children who say that, whenever thunder is heard, the men in the mountains must be playing nine-pins.Washington Irving was a fiction writer, biographer, historian, essayist and US ambassador who worked during the first half of the 19th century. His grown daughter takes him in and he resumes his usual idleness. He also realizes that he has been away from the village for at least 20 years. He learns that the men whom he met in the mountains are rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew from his ship, the Halve Maen. Van Winkle also discovers that his wife died some time ago but is not saddened by the news. He is also disturbed to find another man called Rip Van Winkle it is his son, now grown up. Van Winkle learns that most of his friends were killed fighting in the American Revolution. King George's portrait on the inn's sign has been replaced with one of George Washington. Never having cast a ballot in his life, he proclaims himself a faithful subject of King George III, unaware that the American Revolution has taken place, and nearly gets himself into trouble with the townspeople until one elderly woman recognizes him as the long-lost Rip Van Winkle. He arrives just after an election, and people ask how he voted. He returns to his village, where he recognizes no one. When he awakens on the mountain, he discovers shocking changes: his musket is rotting and rusty, his beard is a foot long, and his dog is nowhere to be found. Instead, he begins to drink some of their liquor and soon falls asleep. Van Winkle does not ask who they are or how they know his name. Together, the men and Wolf proceed to a hollow in which Rip discovers the source of thunderous noises: a group of ornately dressed, silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins. He hears his name called out and sees a man wearing antiquated Dutch clothing he is carrying a keg up the mountain and requires help. One autumn day, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging. The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." "Rip Van Winkle" is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains where Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American villager, lives. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819.
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