Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" is an 1819 short story prepare in America. Rip Van Winkle is a fictional character from the Catskill Mountains who is a villager in colonial America. He encounters some mystery Dutchmen, drinks some of their vino, and so falls comatose. 20 years later, he wakes upwardly to a drastically different globe because he did not alive through the American Revolution.

Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April iii, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American brusk story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his curt stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which announced in his drove The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Islamic prophet Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th century Spain that bargain with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as administrator to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Forenoon Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. He moved to England for the family business in 1815 where he achieved fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., serialized from 1819–20. He continued to publish regularly throughout his life, and he completed a five-book biography of George Washington just eight months before his expiry at age 76 in Tarrytown, New York. Irving was one of the first American writers to earn acclamation in Europe, and he encouraged other American authors such every bit Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. He was likewise admired by some British writers, including Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Francis Jeffrey, and Walter Scott. He advocated for writing equally a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.