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"Rip Van Winkle" (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑŋ ˈʋɪŋkəl]) 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.
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Fred Leslie as Rip Van Winkle, 1882. Rip Van Winkle is an operetta in three acts by Robert Planquette.The English language libretto by Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille and Henry Brougham Farnie was based on the short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) and "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) by Washington Irving after the play by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", both of which were immediately acknowledged as The Sketch Book's finest pieces, American and English readers alike responded most strongly to the more sentimental tales, especially "The Broken Heart", – which Byron claimed had made him weep [23] – and "The Widow and Her Son".
Rip Van Winkle is the foremost familiar example, although strictly speaking this cannot be called a "folktale", since it is a fictional work by Washington Irving loosely based on folklore. [113] Nevertheless, Urashima has been labeled the "Japanese Rip van Winkle", even in academic folkloristic literature. [114] "
The first installment, containing "Rip Van Winkle", was an enormous success, and the rest of the work was equally successful; it was issued in 1819–1820 in seven installments in New York and in two volumes in London ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" appeared in the sixth issue of the New York edition and the second volume of the London edition ...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle: Jack Kelly 1820 Washington Irving: Originally The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Fern Siegel 1890 Oscar Wilde: Dracula: 1996 Jack Kelly 1897 Bram Stoker: King Solomon’s Mines: 1885 H. Rider Haggard: Pride and Prejudice: 1997 Fern Siegel 1813 Jane Austen: Aesop’s Fables ...