As evening falls, he hears a voice calling his name and finds a man dressed in antiquated Dutch clothing and carrying a keg. One day, he goes squirrel hunting in the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging. 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. While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." Plot It was published in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and thence falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains. " Rip Van Winkle" ( Dutch pronunciation: ) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Depiction of Rip Van Winkle by John Quidor (1829).
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