$Statue of Rip Van Winkle - 'Rip Van Winkle' is a short story by the American Author Washington Irving published in 1819. The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains.An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect,he is loved by all but his wife. One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains.There he encounters strangely dressed man who are playing nine-pins. After drinking some of the wine,he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village,where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that and his close friends have died in a war gone somewhere else. He proclaims himself loyal subject of Kin\g George 111,not knowing the American Revolution has taken place.$

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Statue of Rip Van Winkle - 'Rip Van Winkle' is a short story by the American Author Washington Irving published in 1819. The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains.An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect,he is loved by all but his wife. One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains.There he encounters strangely dressed man who are playing nine-pins. After drinking some of the wine,he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village,where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that and his close friends have died in a war gone somewhere else. He proclaims himself loyal subject of Kin\g George 111,not knowing the American Revolution has taken place.